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Definition: Vacuity |
VacuityNoun1. The absence of matter. 2. Total absence of matter. 3. A region empty of matter. 4. Total lack of meaning or ideas. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vacuity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Vacuity \Va*cu"i*ty\, noun. [Latin expression vacuitas. See Vacuous.]. (references) |
Synonyms: VacuitySynonyms: inanity (n), mindlessness (n), pointlessness (n), senselessness (n), vacuousness (n), vacuum (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence | Emptiness; Adjective: void, vacuum; vacuity, vacancy; tabula rasa; exemption; hiatus; (interval); lipotype. |
Incogitancy | Noun: incogitancy, vacancy, inunderstanding; fatuity; thoughtlessness; (inattention); vacuity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Vacuity |
| English words defined with "vacuity": Voidness. (references) |
| "Vacuity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vacuity" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
briggs vacuity | 16 |
4200 briggs vacuity | 15 |
briggs toilet vacuity | 5 |
bes offer this vacuity | 4 |
vacuity | 3 |
toilet vacuity | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "vacuity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zbrazëti (emptiness, gap, hiatus, inanimation, vacuum, void), gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, gammon, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tosh, trash, twaddle, waffle, wish-wash), fjalë boshe (meaningless words, wind). (various references) | |
Arabic | فراغ (air, blank, completion, emptiness, finishing, free time, gap, idleness, inane, inanity, leisure, nothingness, space, spare time, vacancy, vacuum, void). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вакуум (vacuum), липса на мисъл (vacancy), липса на интерес, липса на интелект, безсъдържателност (barrenness, inanity, insignificance, insignificancy), безсмисленост (inanity, inutility, vanity), пустота (bleakness, emptiness, inanity, vanity), празнота (blankness, chasm, emptiness, idleness, sketchiness, vacancy, vacuum, vanity, void), празно пространство (room, vacancy, vacuum, void). (various references) | |
Czech | prázdnota (emptiness, vacancy, void), prázdno (nothingness, playtime, vacancy, void). (various references) | |
Danish | head space (expansion space, head space), frivolumen (expansion space, head space). (various references) | |
Dutch | vrije ruimte (expansion space, head space), wan (electric fan, ventilator), gasruimte (expansion space, head space). (various references) | |
French | vacuité, niaiserie, dégarnissage, chambre d'expansion. (various references) | |
German | Leere (bareness, blank, blankness, emptily, emptiness, inaneness, vacancy, vacantness, vacuously, vacuousness, void). (various references) | |
Greek | κενότητα (emptiness, inanition, vacancy, vacantness, vacuousness, voidness), κενό (blank, gap, hiatus, vacancy, vacuum, void), χώρος διαστολής (expansion space, head space). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ריקות (emptiness, vac, vacancy), ריק (blank, emptiness, empty, vacant, vacuum, vain, vanity, void). (various references) | |
Hungarian | üresség (blankness, cavity, emptiness, hollowness, platitude, vacancy), ûr (emptiness, space, vacuum, void). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kelapangan (ease, emptiness, feel relieved, leisure), kekosongan (blank, blankness, emptiness, vacuum). (various references) | |
Italian | vuoto - lacuna - vacuita\ - stupidita\, vuoto (bare, blank, blankness, devoid, emptiness, empty, empty space, frothily, frothy, gap, hollow, shallow, space, vacancy, vacant, vacuous, vacuum, vide, void), vacuit (vacuousness), camera di espansione (expansion space, head space). (various references) | |
Manx | folmidys (vacancy), folmid (bareness, blank, blankness, emptiness, flatness, hollowness, inanity, shallowness, vacancy, vacuum, void, void useless). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acuityvay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | espaço vazio (lacuna, vacancy, void). (various references) | |
Russian | разреженность (rarefaction, tenuity), бессодержательные слова, бессодержательность (emptiness, inanity), пустота (emptiness, frivolity, frothiness, hollow, inanity, vacancy, vacuum, vapidity, void). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | praznina duha. (various references) | |
Spanish | vacuidad (emptiness, inanity, vacancy). (various references) | |
Swedish | tomhet (bareness, blankness, emptiness, emptyness, inanition, inanity, vanity, void). (various references) | |
Turkish | saçmalık (absurdity, applesauce, balderdash, bilge, blather, blatherskite, blether, bosh, drivel, extravagance, eyewash, farce, fatuity, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, gab, galimatias, gassing, gibberish, guff, hog-wash, hokum, hooey, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, insanity, irrationality, lark, malarkey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, shenanigan, silliness, spinach, stuff, talkee-talkee, the irrational, trash, triviality, twaddle, whimsicality, whimsicalness, wind, wishy-wash), dalgınlık (absence, absence of mind, absent-mindedness, abstractedness, abstraction, Kef, pensiveness, reverie, thoughtfulness, vacancy, wandering, woolgathering), boşluk (abysm, abyss, antrum, backlash, blank, blankness, cavity, chamber, chasm, clear, clearance, daylight, desideratum, emptiness, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, hollowness, idleness, inanition, Lacuna, nothingness, nullity, separation, sinus, slack, slackness, space, vacancy, vacuum, void, voidness), boş boş bakış, anlamsızlık (absurdity, absurdness, barrenness, fatuity, frivolity, inanity, incoherence, ineptitude, ineptness, inexpressiveness, insignificance, insignificancy, nonsensicalness, nothingness, ridiculousness, unreason). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | марнослів'я (slipslop), беззмістовність (emptiness, inanity, insignificance, windiness), пустота (baldness, blank, emptiness, frothiness, nothing, void). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự trống rỗng chỗ trống, sự ngây dại (hebetude, muzziness), khoảng không sự trống rỗng tâm h"n. (various references) | |
Welsh | gwacter (emptiness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | vacuitas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Vacuity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Macavity, vacity, vacuui. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "vacuity" (pronounced 'Va*cu"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-t-u-v-y" | |
-1 letter: acuity, cavity. | |
-2 letters: vatic. | |
-3 letters: cavy, city, tivy, vatu, vita, yuca. | |
-4 letters: act, ait, cat, cay, cut, icy, ivy, tau, tav, tic, tui, uta, vac, vat, vau, via. | |
-5 letters: ai, at, ay, it, ta, ti, ut, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-t-u-v-y" | |
+3 letters: curatively. | |
+4 letters: causatively, lucratively, vascularity, vulcanicity. | |
+5 letters: avascularity, avuncularity, cumulatively, equivocality, vesicularity. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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