Vacuity

Definitions

1. Emptiness.
   countable, uncountable
2. Physical emptiness, an absence of matter; vacuum.
   countable, uncountable
3. Idleness; listlessness.
   countable, uncountable
4. An empty or inane remark or thing.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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[…].”

“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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