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Word entry · 7 letters

vacuity

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"Empty lack of meaning"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /væˈkjuːɪtɪ/Part of speech nounSorted acituvyStarts with VEnds with Y1 clues
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Definitions

  1. total lack of meaning or ideas

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • to find so sensible a breach or vacuity in the course of the passions, by means of this breach in the connexion of ideas[…].
  • The Baronet was not more animated than ordinarily—there was a happy vacuity about him which enabled him to face a dinner, a death, a church, a marriage, with the same indifferent ease.
  • At first glance, Saltburn is classic clash-of-the-classes fare: a tale of social strata, moral vacuity and the seductions of wealth, with a poor boy ushered into his rich friend's kingdom.

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