Synonyms for vacuity
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : va-kyoo-i-tee, vuh- |
| Phonetic Transcription : væˈkyu ɪ ti, və- |
Définition of vacuity
Origin :- late 14c., "hollow space," from Latin vacuitas "empty space, vacancy, freedom," from vacuus "empty" (see vacuum). Originally in anatomy. Meaning "vacancy of mind or thought" is attested from 1590s.
- noun emptiness
- noun inanity
- The vacuity and the superfluity are thus partially compensated by each other.
- Extract from : « Cratylus » by Plato
- "Or the vacuity of the unlucky, possibly," said Tom, with an easy laugh.
- Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. » by Charles James Lever
- Dust on the water, cries on the water, then vacuity and silence.
- Extract from : « Appearances » by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
- Did it not all spring from the barrenness and vacuity of rural life?
- Extract from : « A Spoil of Office » by Hamlin Garland
- She beats the taeds that live in stanes,An' fatten in vacuity!
- Extract from : « The Book of Humorous Verse » by Various
- No corner of any place can be empty; there can be no vacuity.
- Extract from : « Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions » by John Donne
- This is the method of Vacuity or Dawdling formerly mentioned.
- Extract from : « Assimilative Memory » by Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
- Around it and beyond was only the blackness and silence of vacuity.
- Extract from : « Old Junk » by H. M. Tomlinson
- He then rose with his attendants, and pierced into the vacuity of heaven.
- Extract from : « The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2) » by Valmiki
- How a Bodhisattwa merges all natural attributes into vacuity.
- Extract from : « The Influence of Buddhism on Primitive Christianity » by Arthur Lillie
Antonyms for vacuity
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