vacuity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: va=cu=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

vacuity, n. [L. vacuitas. See Vacuous.].

•  The quality or state of being vacuous, or not filled; emptiness; vacancy; as, vacuity of mind; vacuity of countenance.  [1913 Webster]

  "Hunger is such a state of vacuity as to require a fresh supply of aliment."  [1913 Webster]
•  Space unfilled or unoccupied, or occupied with an invisible fluid only; emptiness; void; vacuum.  [1913 Webster]

  "A vacuity is interspersed among the particles of matter."  [1913 Webster]

  "God . . . alone can answer all our longings and fill every vacuity of our soul."  [1913 Webster]
•  Want of reality; inanity; nihility.  [1913 Webster]

  "Their expectations will meet with vacuity."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

vacuity

bare, bareness, barrenness, blank, blankness, bleakness, cavity, clear, desolateness, dull, dullness, emptiness, empty, empty-headed, foolish, hollow, hollowness, inane, inanity, nada, nihility, nonexistence, nullity, shallow, silly, stark, stupidity, superficial, vacancy, vacant, vacuous, vacuousness, void, voidness

ROGET THESAURUS

vacuity

Absence

N absence, inexistence, nonresidence, absenteeism, nonattendance, alibi, emptiness, void, vacuum, vacuity, vacancy, tabula rasa, exemption, hiatus, lipotype, truant, absentee, nobody, nobody present, nobody on earth, not a soul, ame qui vive, absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home, missing, lost, wanting, omitted, nowhere to be found, inexistence, empty, void, vacant, vacuous, untenanted, unoccupied, uninhabited, tenantless, barren, sterile, desert, deserted, devoid, uninhabitable, without, minus, nowhere, elsewhere, neither here nor there, in default of, sans, behind one's back, the bird has flown, non est inventus, absence makes the heart grow fonder, absent in body but present in spirit, absento nemo ne nocuisse velit, Achilles absent was Achilles still, aux absents les os, briller par son absence, conspicuous by his absence, in the hope to meet shortly again and make our abs.

Incogitancy

N incogitancy, vacancy, inunderstanding, fatuity thoughtlessness, vacuity, couch potato, vegetable, vacant, unintellectual, unideal, unoccupied, unthinking, inconsiderate, thoughtless, mindless, no-brain, vacuous, absent, diverted, irrational narrow-minded, unthought of, undreamt 'of, unconsidered, off one's mind, incogitable, not to be thought of, absence d'esprit, pabulum pictura pascit inani.