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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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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    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.