Va-cū'i-ty, n.

noun

n. [Fr. vacuité, Pr. vacuitat, Sp. vacuidad, Pg. vacuidade, It. vacuità, Lat. vacuitas, from vacuus, empty.]

Sense 1. The quality or condition of being vacuous; a state of being unfilled; emptiness.

Hunger is such a state of vacuity as to require a fresh supply. Arbuthnot.

Sense 2. Want of reality; inanity; nihility. [Rare.]

Their expectations will meet with vacuity. Granville.

Sense 3. Space unfilled or unoccupied, or occupied with an invisible fluid only; emptiness; void; vacuum.

A vacuity is interspersed among the particles of matter. Bentley.

God only can fill every vacuity of the soul. Rogers.