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as in emptiness
empty space
the seemingly endless vacuity between settlements in the desert
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as in vacancy
the quality or state of being empty
the vacuity of the house after everyone had moved out was both striking and depressing
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as in thickness
the quality or state of lacking intelligence or quickness of mind
the monumental vacuity of the starlet's comments on the important issues of the day
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Recent Examples of vacuity
But her refusal to investigate why the system is so broken is the natural outcome of her studied vacuity.
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Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
In assigning him that seemingly perverse task, Scorsese tapped into the vague air of vacuity at the center of a star who’s always seemed present and absent all at once.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 26 Sep. 2025
Only a few days into quarantine, a loathsome instant classic of Hollywood vacuity had been born.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
The transpersonal quality of great art has its dark side in the vacuity of hotel paintings, Muzak, and formulaic paperback novels.
—Meghan O'Gieblyn, WIRED, 20 Feb. 2024
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Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
In assigning him that seemingly perverse task, Scorsese tapped into the vague air of vacuity at the center of a star who’s always seemed present and absent all at once.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 26 Sep. 2025
Only a few days into quarantine, a loathsome instant classic of Hollywood vacuity had been born.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
The transpersonal quality of great art has its dark side in the vacuity of hotel paintings, Muzak, and formulaic paperback novels.
—Meghan O'Gieblyn, WIRED, 20 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vacuity
Noun
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Inner emptiness has always been a fixation of Ye.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
1 Apr. 2026
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While fans would have surely loved to get any of these songs over the past five years in lieu of the chaos of 2020s-era Ye, there’s still an emptiness at the heart of Bully.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2026
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Layer the gravel to a 3- to 4-inch thickness to keep sunlight from reaching the soil and germinating weed seeds, the same way mulch works.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
12 Apr. 2026
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That is around half the thickness that most electrical motors use.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Apr. 2026
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One such sensor uses the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamonds to measure.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Apr. 2026
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The new members fill vacancies resulting from four resignations in recent months.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
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Meanwhile, arrowroot extract adds volume, aloe vera extract adds a bit of shine (to prevent chalkiness and dullness), and celery root extract soothes the scalp.—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
8 Apr. 2026
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Their bestselling Regenerating Cleanser gently polishes away impurities and dullness to reveal a healthy-looking, radiant glow, clinically proven to make skin look brighter, smoother, more hydrated and pores look smaller.—
Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
7 Apr. 2026
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Understand how rye works in baking Though dark, dense rye bread is delicious, rye flour does not inherently create denseness in other baked goods.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Apr. 2026
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There’s the White House and its malicious megaphone of mindlessness; the generative AI advocates and their pushy, pathetic ploys; the Major League Baseball owners and their dedication to self-destruction.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
20 Feb. 2026
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The show’s real villain is mindlessness, in other words.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
5 Feb. 2026
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Kering also aims to refurbish or relocate two-thirds of its Gucci store network, reduce selling space by 20% and outlets by a third to achieve a doubling of its sales density by 2030.—
Elsa Ohlen,
CNBC,
16 Apr. 2026
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Saul Leiken, the company’s director of product line, told me there is some cross-pollination—for example, the bike’s battery uses the same cells as a Rivian’s, just at a lower density.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
16 Apr. 2026
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Unlike its sibling concepts of dumbness and idiocy, stupidity isn’t really a personality trait.—
Jonny Thomson,
Big Think,
11 Feb. 2026
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Compare that to punk rock, which used dumbness as a tactic.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Vacuity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vacuity. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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