vacuity
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9.2
- noun
- /vəˈkjuːɪti/
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vacuidad
- In Germany, Friedrich Nietzsche's criticism of the category of history and his more general philosophy had cast scholars, artists, and activists of many creeds into an abyss of intellectual vacuity.
Examples
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The startling vacuity of Elsinore Abbott in Dance Night (1930) is a case in point.
Academic text (2000) -
"Nabokov saw the intellectual vacuity of Freudian theory and its pervasiveness in the popular and the professional imagination."
Academic text (2011) -
In a state of mental vacuity.
Fiction book (1996) -
Those who are suspicious of learning point to bad writing as evidence of vacuity among scholars.
Blog text (11) -
Our world today is not lacking in examples of both moral vacuity and moral dogmatism, and the baneful consequences of both.
Academic text (1991) -
This ironic ethos can lead to a vacuity and vapidity of the individual and collective psyche.
Blog text (4) -
I've noted in these days of vacuity and the reflex worship of the superficial that people attribute their viewpoints and motivations to others.
Blog text (14) -
More importantly, this community is a place where spiritlessness is pervasive, a place that "accentuates the vacuity of the times and informs the novel's sense of spiritual panic" (Rock 108).
Academic text (2016) -
The vacuity of the lecture left the students feeling bored and unchallenged.
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Many people criticize the vacuity of social media posts that lack meaningful content.
Synonyms
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5.3
A feeling that life has no meaning
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7.6
A feeling that what you do has no purpose or value
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9.5
A state of being very silly and without any real meaning
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4.3
A feeling of emptiness with no thoughts or emotion
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6.2
A state when something has no purpose or use
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7.0
A state of having no meaning or purpose
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7.3
A lack of thought or care in what someone does
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7.1
An empty feeling inside a person or their words
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9.2
A state of being empty of meaning and thought
A feeling of emptiness after something important ends
A place or space with nothing in it and no activity
A lack of ideas, energy, or interest in speech and writing
A lack of real substance or value that leaves you unsatisfied
Antonyms
How Empty
Surface Forms
Morphology
vacuity = vacuous (semi-transparent) = vacu + ity
The meaning ('emptiness of thought or content') follows from the base adjective 'vacuous', but the Latin combining form and less frequent usage make it less transparent.
Etymology
Vacuity comes from the Latin vacuus 'empty', the same root as vacant and vacuum, and that's why the word also describes being 'empty' of ideas or meaning, as in a speech or look with no real content.