vacuity
English
Alternative forms
- vacuitie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Latin vacuitās (“empty space, vacancy, vacuity”); equivalent to vacu(ous) + -ity.
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Pronunciation
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Noun
vacuity (countable and uncountable, plural vacuities)
- Emptiness.
- Template:RQ:Florio Montaigne Essayes
- 1748, David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, III.13:
- to find so sensible a breach or vacuity in the course of the passions, by means of this breach in the connexion of ideas […].
- Physical emptiness, an absence of matter; vacuum.
- Idleness; listlessness.
- An empty or inane remark or thing.
Translations
emptiness
vacuum
idleness
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a pointless or inane remark
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