Meaning
4 senses(countable, uncountable)Emptiness.
(countable, uncountable)Physical emptiness, an absence of matter.
the absence of matter
(countable, uncountable)Idleness; listlessness.
(countable, uncountable)An empty or inane remark or thing.
Examples
2 sentencesSedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity.
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up all the vacuities of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
Translations
4 languagesOrigin
From Latin vacuitās (“empty space, vacancy, vacuity”); equivalent to vacu(ous) + -ity.From Latin vacuitās (“empty space, vacancy, vacuity”); equivalent to vacu(ous) + -ity.
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Forms
plural: vacuitiesSynonyms
7 synonymsClose in meaning
- a region that is devoid of matter:vacuum
- the absence of matter:vacuum
- total lack of meaning or ideas:inanitysenselessnessmindlessnesspointlessness
Word family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable