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vacuity

[va-kyoo-i-tee, vuh-] / væˈkju ɪ ti, və- /
NOUN
emptiness
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Antonyms
STRONG


NOUN
inanity
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The vacuity of that rationale needs to be emphasized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

This moral vacuity provides the spectacle, as H.G.

From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2023

Suddaby’s analysis shows the vacuity of Bruen’s history-only test.

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2022

The infamous, incredulous ending has Ramirez suddenly realizing the vacuity of his fast, fun life and returning to the Eastside “back where I belong ... with my own people.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2021

He reached for the doorknob that opened the way out into the unlit hall, then shrank back as he glimpsed the vacuity of the rest of the building.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

Why should there be great vacuities, barren of power and its creative outgoings?

From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Henry White Warren

In the long-tailed genus Scaphognathus from Solenhofen this preorbital opening is much larger than the nostril, while in Dimorphodon these vacuities are of about equal size.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley

In the center of every floor, from top to bottom, is the chief room, of no great extent, round which there are narrow cavities, or recesses, formed by small vacuities, or by a double wall. 

From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson

In some of the older genera of these carnivorous Dinosaurs of the Trias, the lateral vacuities of the head are as large as in Dimorphodon.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley

The present possession fills not up the vacuities of the heart, without the supply of our imaginations, by taking so much in upon the head of the morrow, to speak so.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning


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