va|cu|i|ty

va|cu|i|ty «va KYOO uh tee», noun, plural -ties.

1. emptiness.

2. an empty space; vacuum.

3. emptiness of mind; lack of ideas or intelligence: »

In indolent vacuity of thought (William Cowper).

4. something foolish or stupid: »

an undue preoccupation with the vacuities which society has invented (Arnold Bennett).

5. an absence or lack (of something specified).

╂[< Latin vacuitās < vacuus vacuous]