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vacuity

[va-kyoo-i-tee, vuh-] / væˈkju ɪ ti, və- /
NOUN
emptiness
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Antonyms
STRONG


NOUN
inanity
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The vacuity of that rationale needs to be emphasized.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

As I’ve written previously, Bankman-Fried exploited the vacuity of crypto by slathering it over with what sounded like profundities but was vacuous gibberish.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 15, 2024

This moral vacuity provides the spectacle, as H.G.

From Salon Jan. 10, 2023

Suddaby’s analysis shows the vacuity of Bruen’s history-only test.

From Slate Oct. 7, 2022

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

In some of the older genera of these carnivorous Dinosaurs of the Trias, the lateral vacuities of the head are as large as in Dimorphodon.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley

Four Children’s Heads, which it is much to be regretted should be thus lost in filling small vacuities of the ceiling.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by John Ruskin

Nature has appointed happy fields, victorious laurel-crowns; but only to the brave and true: _Un_nature, what we call Chaos, holds nothing in it but vacuities, devouring gulfs.

From Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle

The Solenhofen skulls which give any evidence of the palate are exposed in side view only, and the bones, imperfectly seen through the lateral vacuities, are displaced by crushing.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley

In both Anura and Urodela the skull is short, broad, relatively flat, with reduced pterygoids that diverge laterally from the parasphenoids leaving large interpterygoid vacuities, and with large orbits.

From The Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence by Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth) Eaton




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