vacancy

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: va=can=cy

CIDE DICTIONARY

vacancy, n. [Cf. F. vacance.].

•  The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.  [1913 Webster]

  "All dispositions to idleness or vacancy, even before they are habits, are dangerous."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is vacant.  [1913 Webster]

  "How is't with you,
  That you do bend your eye on vacancy?"  [1913 Webster]

  "Time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities."  [1913 Webster]

  "No interim, not a minute's vacancy."  [1913 Webster]

  "Those little vacancies from toil are sweet."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

vacancy, n. (pl. -ies)
1 the state of being vacant or empty.
2 an unoccupied post or job (there are three vacancies for typists).
3 an available room in a hotel etc.
4 emptiness of mind; idleness, listlessness.

THESAURUS

vacancy

absence, absence of mind, appointment, bareness, barrenness, berth, billet, blank, blank mind, blankmindedness, blankness, bleakness, breach, calm of mind, deficiency, deprivation, desertedness, desolateness, employment, emptiness, emptiness of mind, empty-headedness, engagement, fallow mind, fatuity, foolishness, gap, gig, hiatus, hollowness, inanition, inanity, incomprehension, incumbency, jejunity, job, lacuna, mental blankness, mental void, moonlighting, negation, negativeness, negativity, nihility, nirvana, nonbeing, nonentity, nonexistence, noninhabitance, nonoccupance, nonoccupancy, nonoccurrence, nonreality, nonresidence, nonsubsistence, not-being, nothingness, nullity, oblivion, office, opening, passivity, place, place open, position, post, quietism, second job, service, situation, slot, station, tabula rasa, tenure, thoughtfreeness, thoughtlessness, tranquillity, unactuality, unawareness, unintelligence, unreality, vacant post, vacuity, vacuousness, vacuum, vapidity, void, voidness

ROGET THESAURUS

vacancy

Insufficiency

N insufficiency, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompetence, deficiency, imperfection, shortcoming, paucity, stint, scantiness, none to spare, bare subsistence, scarcity, dearth, want, need, lack, poverty, exigency, inanition, starvation, famine, drought, dole, mite, pittance, short allowance, short commons, half rations, banyan day, emptiness, poorness, depletion, vacancy, flaccidity, ebb tide, low water, a beggarly account of empty boxes, indigence, insolvency, drain of resources, impoverish, stint, put on short allowance, do insufficiently, scotch the snake, Adj, insufficient, inadequate, too little, not enough, unequal to, incompetent, weighed in the balance and found wanting, perfunctory, deficient, wanting imperfect, ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill- stored, ill-off, slack, at a low ebb, empty, vacant, bare, short of, out of, destitute of, devoid of, bereft of, denuded of, dry, drained, unprovided, unsupplied, unfurnished, unreplenished, unfed, unstored, untreasured, empty-handed, meager, poor, thin, scrimp, sparing, spare, stinted, starved, starving, halfstarved, famine-stricken, famished, jejune, scant, scarce, not to be had, not to be had for love or money, not to be had at any price, scurvy, stingy, at the end of one's tether, without resources, in want, in debt, insufficiently, in default of, for want of, failing, semper avarus eget.

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.