vacuity
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The vacuity of that rationale needs to be emphasized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
One of the secondary subjects of this tough, absorbing, meticulously controlled movie is the creeping vacuity of so much contemporary teen culture — a culture in which Lea participates without feeling entirely of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
Suddaby’s analysis shows the vacuity of Bruen’s history-only test.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2022
They make up for their intellectual and moral vacuity with a zealous subservience to power.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2021
He reached for the doorknob that opened the way out into the unlit hall, then shrank back as he glimpsed the vacuity of the rest of the building.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
It would prove a wise and pleasurable mode of employing some of the intervals of domestic engagement, and furnish both useful and interesting subjects of reflection to fill up the vacuities of thought.
From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Francis Augustus Cox
These vacuities, which correspond to those of mammals in position, are seen from the top of the head, as lateral vacuities behind the orbits of the eyes, and are termed superior temporal vacuities.
From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley
In the long-tailed genus Scaphognathus from Solenhofen this preorbital opening is much larger than the nostril, while in Dimorphodon these vacuities are of about equal size.
From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley
If the eye may be judge, iron must be reckoned to have a great many vacuities, and to be porous like a honey-comb, yet it is the dullest, and sounds worse than any other metal.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
They are windows opening on a world as small as your bound feet, a world of ignorances, and vacuities, and kitchen-gods.
From Profiles from China by Eunice Tietjens
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