Vacuity
Pronunciation of Vacuity
/vakjˈuːɪti/, /vakjˈuːɪti/, /v_a_k_j_ˈuː_ɪ_t_i/
Antonyms for vacuity:
astuteness, keenness, sharpness, acumen, wit.
Synonyms for vacuity:
Sense 1
incomprehension, the absurd, hollowness.
Sense 2
Sense 3
Other synonyms and related words:
foolishness, heedlessness, pointlessness, oafishness, incomprehension, dopiness, senselessness, stupidity, vacantness, precipitation, slowness, boneheadedness, hollowness, dullness, weak-mindedness, thickness, rashness, cavity, vacuum cleaner, dorkiness, dim-wittedness, indiscretion, witlessness, vacuum, obtuseness, folly, doltishness, pocket, bareness.
Sense 1 (noun)
indiscretion, myopia, precipitation, incomprehension, the absurd.
Sense 4 (noun)
Sense 5 (noun)
absence (noun)
abstraction, nonexistence, emptiness, void, truancy, want, omission, lack, absence, vacancy.
emptiness (noun)
vacancy, vacuum, void, nothingness, Nihility.
inanity (noun)
stupidity, vacuousness, blankness.
location (noun)
vacuum.
nonexistence (noun)
non-subsistence, null, nil, vacuousness, nonentity, barrenness, naught, meaninglessness.
state (noun)
vacuum.
thoughtlessness (noun)
fatuity, blankness, inanity, unreasonableness, mindlessness, brainlessness, thoughtlessness.
unsubstantiality (noun)
immateriality, zero, mirage, tenuousness, apparition, Ethereality, spectre, insignificance, cipher, nothingness, unreality, intangibility, impalpability, Nihility, phantom, nullity.
vacuity (noun)
mindlessness, pointlessness, senselessness, inanity, vacuousness, vacuum.
Usage examples for vacuity:
- There remains in my mind the dreary sense of a long, long drive to the uttermost bounds of the South End at Boston, where he went to call upon some obscure person whose claim stretched in a lengthening chain from his early days in Missouri- a most inadequate person, in whose vacuity the gloom of the dull day deepened till it was almost too deep for tears. - "Entire PG Edition of The Works of William Dean Howells", William Dean Howells.
- In fact, he did his very best to make the boy's life miserable, and the occupation of hating him seemed in some measure to fill up the vacuity of an ill- conditioned and degraded mind. - "Eric, or Little by Little", Frederic W. Farrar.
- This concept is, through a psychological necessity, accompanied by an imagination image of what we call imaginary space: the unlimited vacuity which preceded corporeal creation, which would still persist were the latter totally annihilated, which reaches out indefinitely beyond its actual limits, which imagination pictures for us as a receptacle in which bodies may exist but which all the time our reason assures us is actually nothing, being really only the known possibility of corporeal creatures. - "Ontology or the Theory of Being", Peter Coffey.