vacuity

noun

va-ˈkyü-ə-tē How to pronounce vacuity (audio)
Definition of vacuitynext
1
as in emptiness
empty space the seemingly endless vacuity between settlements in the desert

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2
as in vacancy
the quality or state of being empty the vacuity of the house after everyone had moved out was both striking and depressing

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3
as in dullness
the quality or state of lacking intelligence or quickness of mind the monumental vacuity of the starlet's comments on the important issues of the day

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Recent Examples of vacuity Hilton became a symbol for excessive wealth, celebrity vacuity, and moral decline. — Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 29 Dec. 2025 But her refusal to investigate why the system is so broken is the natural outcome of her studied vacuity. — Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025 In assigning him that seemingly perverse task, Scorsese tapped into the vague air of vacuity at the center of a star who’s always seemed present and absent all at once. — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 26 Sep. 2025 Only a few days into quarantine, a loathsome instant classic of Hollywood vacuity had been born. — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for vacuity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vacuity
  1. emptiness
  2. dullness
  3. vacancy
  4. thickness
  5. mindlessness
  6. denseness
  7. dumbness
  8. density
Noun
  • There is an emptiness left behind that cannot be filled, and there are so many of us who will never be quite the same without you.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Occasional moments of real, spontaneous joy emerge, and others reveal the crushing emptiness of lives going nowhere, but the script doesn’t lean too hard in either direction.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2026
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  • Yeomans says the approach can work for a range of concerns, including oiliness, dullness, frizz and weak hair that needs strengthening.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2026
  • First comes the tightness and dullness, then the flaky patches around my cheeks.
    — Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 9 Oct. 2026
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  • Electrons from outer shells then fell into those vacancies, releasing energy as X-rays.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Some facilities have experienced vacancy rates of medical staff of nearly 40%.
    — Jaquelyn Jahn, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026
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  • Rocket Lab also deleted joints in the first stage tank structure and increased the thickness of some sections of the carbon composite.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026
  • There are more than 650 regulatory elements associated with beak size and nearly 1,700 with beak thickness and breadth.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of thickness
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  • There’s the White House and its malicious megaphone of mindlessness; the generative AI advocates and their pushy, pathetic ploys; the Major League Baseball owners and their dedication to self-destruction.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The show’s real villain is mindlessness, in other words.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
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  • Tiernan is tall but carries the denseness of frame and core strength of a guard.
    — Matthew Mowery, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Understand how rye works in baking Though dark, dense rye bread is delicious, rye flour does not inherently create denseness in other baked goods.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
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  • The first 10 minutes are an incredible swirl of paranoia, alcoholism, and sluggish dumbness when Gould just needs to feed his cat.
    — Eric Farwell, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026
  • Unlike its sibling concepts of dumbness and idiocy, stupidity isn’t really a personality trait.
    — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 11 Feb. 2026
Definition of dumbness
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  • Over-harvesting the donor area to achieve maximum density on day one can leave nothing for the repair that later progression demands.
    — William Jones, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The Strawberry Lane development proposes a density of about two homes per acre if removed from the boundary.
    — Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
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“Vacuity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vacuity. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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