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Vapidity

Definition: Vapidity

Vapidity

Noun

1. The quality of being vapid and unsophisticated.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Vapidity

Synonyms: jejuneness (n), jejunity (n), tameness (n), vapidness (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Vapidity

"Vapidity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vapidity" is used about 4 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Vapidity

Language Translations for "vapidity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

rëndomësi (platitude, poorness, vulgarism, vulgarity). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

безвкусност. (various references)

   

Czech

  

chabost (debility). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پوچی (Absurdity, Vanity), خنکی (Chill), بیمزگی (Platitude), بیحسی , بیروحی . (various references)

   

French

  

fadeur. (various references)

   

German

  

Schalheit (flatness, staleness). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ανουσιότησ (flatness, unsavoriness), ανουσιότητα (flatness, unsavoriness), αηδία (abhorrence, disgust, distaste, eyesore, insipidity, insipidness, mawkishness, nausea, nauseousness, shucks, sliminess, vapid). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

תפלות (insipidity, tastelessness). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

laposság (flatness). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kehambaran. (various references)

   

Manx

  

eigid, dreeys (boredom, flatness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apidityvay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

sensaboria (platitude), sem interesse (arid, chippy, flat, pet, prosaic, soulless, tame, vapid), monotonia (blankness, dead level, drab, draggle-tail, humdrum, insipidity, monotone, monotype, platitude, sameness, traipse), insipidez (baldness, flatness, insipidity, insipidness, platitude, washiness), falta de interesse, enfado (boredom, nauseate, pet, phew, tedium, tiresomeness, vexation, weariness). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

безвкусность (tawdriness). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vlažnost (dampness, humidity, moisture, wetness), bljutavost (insipidity, insipidness). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sosería (tameness), insipidez (insipidness, tameness, tastelessness). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

smaklöshet (bad taste, indelicacy, insipidity, tastelessness, tawdriness), innehållslöshet, faddhet (flatness, insipidity). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tatsızlık (desert, disagreeableness, insipidity, tastelessness, unpleasantness, vapidness), sönüklük (desert, dimness, vapidness), sıkıcılık (aridity, inanimation, insipidity, oppressiveness, prosiness, stuffiness, sullenness, thickness, vapidness). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

яeсilkellelik (stupidity). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

скука, несмак (barbarity), банальність (banality, commonness, commonplace, flatness, humdrum, platitude). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Vapidity"

Words rhyming with "vapidity" (pronounced 'Va*pid"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, Alterity, Alternity, Amability, Ambidexterity, Ambiguity, Amenability, Amenity, Amiability, Amicability, Amissibility, Amity, Amorosity, Amovability, Anaplasty, Anfractuosity, Anglicity, Angularity, Angulosity, Anility, Animality, Animosity, Annuity, Annularity, Anonymity, Anteriority, Antiquity, Anxiety, Appetibility, Applicability, Apprehensibiity, Approachability, Appropinquity, Apriority, Aqueity, Aquosity, Aridity, Artificiality, Asininity, Asperity, Assiduity, Assignability, Assimilability, Associability, Astucity, Atomicity, Atrocity, Attainability, Attractability, Attractivity, Audacity, Audibility, Austerity, Authenticity, Authority, Autoplasty, Autostability, availability, Avidity, Banality, Barbarity, Basicity, Batty, BEAUTY, Benignity, Bestiality, Betty, Bibacity, Biblicality, Biformity, Bilaterality, Biplicity, Bipolarity, Bolty, Booty, BOUNTY, Brevity, Bridalty, Brutality, Butty, Caducity, Calamity, Calidity, Caliginosity, Callidity, Callosity, Caloricity, Canonicity, Canthoplasty, Canty, Capability, Capacity, Capillarity, Captivity, Cariosity, Carnality, Carnivoracity, Carnosity, Casualty, Catholicity, Catty, Causality, Cavity, Cecity, Celebrity, Celerity, Centrality, Centricity, Cerebricity, Certainty, Champerty, Changeability, Charity, Chastity, Cheiloplasty, Christianity, Circuity, Circularity, Circumstantiality, Civillty, Clandestinity, Clarity, Clericity, Clivity, Clotty, Coactivity, Coagulability, Coequality, Coessentiality, Coeternity, Cogitability, Cognoscibility, Cohesibility, Collectivity, Colloidality, Columnarity, Combustibility, Comicality, Comity, Commensality, Commensurability, Commodity, Commonalty, Commonty, Communicability, Community, Commutability, Compaternity, Compatibility, Complexity, Complicity, Comprehensibility, Compressibility, Concavity, Concentricity, Conceptibility, Concinnity, Condensability, Condignity, Conditionality, Conducibility, Conductibility, Conductivity, Confinity, Confluxibility, Conformability, Conformity, Confraternity, Confusability, Congeniality, Congruity, Conicality, Conjugality, Connaturality, Connubiality, Consanguinity, Consentaneity, Conspectuity, Conspicuity, Constitutionality, Consubstantiality, Contemporaneity, Contemptibility, Contiguity, Continuity, Contractibility, Contractility, Contrariety, Controllability, Conventionality, Convertibility, Convexity, Convicinity, Conviviality, Cordiality, Coreplasty, Corporality, Corporeality, Corporeity, Corrigibility, Corrodibility, Corrosibility, Corruptibility, Cosurety, Cotqueanity, County, Credibility, Credulity, Criminality, Crinosity, Crocodility, Crudity, Cruelty, Cullibility, Culpability, Cupidity, Curability, Curiality, Curiosity, Curvilinearity, Curvity, Cutty, Cylindricity, Cytty, Damnability, Debility, Debonairity, Deceptivity, Deciduity, Declivity, Deducibility, Defectibility, Defectuosity, Defensibility, Deflagrability, Deformity, Deiformity, Deity, Demisability, Democraty, Demonstrability, Demurity, Density, Deplorability, Depravity, Deputy, Descendibility, Desirability, Despicability, Destructibility, Deteriority, Determinability, Detestability, Devexity, Devotionality, Dexterity, Dextrality, Diaphaneity, Dibasicity, Dicacity, Didacticity, Difficulty, Difformity, Diffusibility, Diffusivity, Digestibility, Dignity, Dilatability, Dimensity, Dimity, Disability, Disassiduity, Discommodity, Discommunity, Disconformity, Discongruity, Discontinuity, Discoverability, Disensanity, Disformity, Dishonesty, Disingenuity, Disloyalty, Disparity, Disproperty, Disputacity, Disquantity, Disreputability, Disrespectability, Dissimilarity, Dissipativity, Dissociability, Dissolubility, Dissolvability, Distensibility, Disunity, Diuturnity, Diversifiability, Diversity, Divinity, Divisibility, Docility, Docity, Domesticity, Dotty, Doty, Doughty, Drasty, Duality, Dubiety, Dubiosity, Ductility, Duplicity, Durability, Durity, Duty, Dynasty, Ebriety, Ebriosity, Eccentricity, Edacity, Edibility, Educability, Efficacity, Effumability, Egality, Egoity, Elasticity, Electorality, Elementality, Elementarity, Eligibility, Ellipticity, Emotivity, Empty, Enmity, Enomoty, Enormity, Entierty, Entirety, Entity, Ephoralty, Epulosity, Equability, Equality, Equanimity, Equilibrity, Equity, Erectility, Essentiality, Eternity. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Vapidity

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-i-i-p-t-v-y"

-1 letter: avidity.

-3 letters: davit, pavid, vapid.

-4 letters: adit, avid, davy, dipt, dita, diva, padi, paid, paty, pita, pity, tidy, tipi, tivy, vita.

-5 letters: aid, ait, apt, dap, day, dip, dit, ivy, pad, pat, pay, pia, pit, pya, tad, tap, tav, tip, vat, via, yap, yid, yip.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-i-i-p-t-v-y"
 

+2 letters: adaptivity.

 

+5 letters: predicatively.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Vapidity


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 61 70 69 64 69 74 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01100001 01110000 01101001 01100100 01101001 01110100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#97 &#112 &#105 &#100 &#105 &#116 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0061 0070 0069 0064 0069 0074 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5667827570758691

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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