vacuity
/va-kyoo-i-tee, vuh-/US // væˈkyu ɪ ti, və- //UK // (væˈkjuːɪtɪ) //
空缺性,空虚,空白,空缺
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n.名词 noun
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plural va·cu·i·ties.
- : the state of being vacuous or without contents; vacancy; emptiness: the vacuity of the open sea.
- : absence of thought or intelligence; inanity; blankness: a mind of undeniable vacuity.
- : a time or state of dullness, lacking in mental or physical action or productivity: the vacuity of modern existence.
- : an empty space; void: a vacuity in the earth formed by erosion.
- : absence or lack of something specified: a vacuity of feeling.
- : something inane, senseless, or stupid: conversation full of vacuities.
- : a vacuum.
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Examples
As a treatise on the essential vacuity of the white liberal male, Boyhood is a staggering achievement.
What was intended to seem like “moral complexity” is left looking instead like utter moral vacuity.
A method of Vacuity pure and simple—the exact opposite of Mental Assimilation.
Tobacco is less a fosterer of thought than a solace of mental vacuity.
It combats ennui, lassitude, and intolerable vacuity, soothing the nerves and diverting attention from self.
This is the method of Vacuity or Dawdling formerly mentioned.
The sky wore, in another colour, the same likeness; a white vacuity of countenance with the lineaments gone.
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