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Webster 1913 Edition


Vacuity

Va-cu′i-ty

(vȧ-kū′ĭ-ty̆)
,
Noun.
[L.
vacuitas
. See
Vacuous
.]
1.
The quality or state of being vacuous, or not filled; emptiness; vacancy;
as,
vacuity
of mind;
vacuity
of countenance
.
Hunger is such a state of
vacuity
as to require a fresh supply of aliment.
Arbuthnot.
2.
Space unfilled or unoccupied, or occupied with an invisible fluid only; emptiness; void; vacuum.
A
vacuity
is interspersed among the particles of matter.
Bentley.
God . . . alone can answer all our longings and fill every
vacuity
of our soul.
Rogers.
3.
Want of reality; inanity; nihility.
[R.]
Their expectations will meet with
vacuity
.
Glanvill.

Webster 1828 Edition


Vacuity

VACU'ITY

,
Noun.
[L. vacuitas, from vacuus.]
1.
Emptiness; a state of being unfilled.
Hunger is such a state of vacuity as to require a fresh supply.
2.
Space unfilled or unoccupied, or occupied with an invisible fluid only.
3.
Emptiness; void.
God only can fill every vacuity of the soul.
4.
Inanity; emptiness; want of reality.
5.
Vacuum, which see.

Definition 2024


vacuity

vacuity

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Alternative forms

Noun

vacuity (plural vacuities)

  1. Emptiness.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
      The meanes I use to suppresse this frenzy, and which seemeth the fittest for my purpose, is to crush, and trample this humane pride and fiercenesse under foot, to make them feele the emptinesse, vacuitie, and no worth of man [].
    • 1748, David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, III.13:
      to find so sensible a breach or vacuity in the course of the passions, by means of this breach in the connexion of ideas [].
  2. Physical emptiness, an absence of matter; vacuum.
  3. Idleness.
  4. An empty or inane remark or thing.

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