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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.
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David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
26 Sep. 2025
Only a few days into quarantine, a loathsome instant classic of Hollywood vacuity had been born.
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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.
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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
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He was used to being alone without Robin and postretirement but being alone in the interminable stretch of predawn hours was a different sort of emptiness.
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Work gives you somewhere to point your attention, somewhere to put the grief, the sadness, the emptiness.
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Cook for 30–40 minutes, depending on thickness, until the salmon flakes easily with a fork, the internal temperature reaches approximately 140°F and the edges are lightly caramelized and smoky.
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Mashing a quarter of the potatoes adds creaminess and thickness to the salad without lots of mayo.
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The more recent a post, the more likely the vacancy hasn’t been filled yet.
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Adamo did not specify how many residents applied for the vacancy.
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Through the gut-skin axis, an unhealthy gut or ongoing internal inflammation can contribute to conditions such as acne, eczema, rosacea, dullness, and sensitive skin.
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Lavender softens the look of dullness, green helps reduce the appearance of redness, and peach helps counter visible dark spots.
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In an email to Krebs, Valadon claimed that the repo’s commit logs show that GitHub’s default protections against committing secrets—protections designed to protect unwitting or unskilled developers against exactly this kind of stupidness—had been disabled by the repo’s administrator.
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Tiernan is tall but carries the denseness of frame and core strength of a guard.
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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.
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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.
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The show’s real villain is mindlessness, in other words.
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And with such excellent transit, there can be much greater housing density.
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The approach will ensure uniform build quality for high-density GPU clusters and accelerate the timeline to active operations.
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“Vacuity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vacuity. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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