vacuity

noun

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Pronunciation: /væˈkjuːɪtɪ/ / /vəˈkjuːɪtɪ/ / /vaˈkjuːɪti/

Etymology: From Latin vacuitās (“empty space, vacancy, vacuity”); equivalent to vacu(ous) + -ity.

Emptiness.
“The meanes I use to suppresse this frenzy, and which seemeth the fittest for my purpose, is to crush, and trample this humane pride and fiercenesse under foot, to make them feele the emptinesse, vacuitie, and no worth of man[…].”
“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.