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词汇 vacuity
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Definition of vacuity in English:

vacuity

noun vəˈkjuːɪti
mass noun
  • 1Lack of thought or intelligence; empty-headedness.

    he denounced what he considered the frivolity or vacuity of much contemporary painting
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His reply was non-committal to the point of vacuity.
    • It was an indulgence of high spirits or, at worst, a vulgar exhibit of personal vanity and artistic vacuity.
    • The biggest display ads of the season could not disguise the vacuity of the event.
    • And without providing meaningful commentary, the pop-punk boom is doomed to implode due to its own vacuity.
    • This is the making of a generation whose banality is interchangeable with their vacuity.
    • Early on, she uses a behind-the-scenes look at campaigning to reveal the vacuity of candidates' on-stage convictions.
    • That sentence is worth reading a couple of times, if only to savour its breathtaking idiocy and vacuity.
    • What we are left with is an empty, shallow shocker whose vacuity is calamitously exposed in its final act.
    • This shows the vacuity of today's policymaking.
    • He championed human values in art and denounced what he considered the frivolity or vacuity of much contemporary painting and sculpture.
    • I was struck at the time by the vacuity of her response.
    • What was most striking to an outsider's sensibility was the impression that the ferocity of the battle for power was matched only by its vacuity.
    • We weren't going to hear praise of our excesses, our shallowness, our engulfing vacuity.
    • Full of excitement, I listened to my first student sermon - only to be taken aback by its vacuity.
    • In other words, Intelligent Design has moved itself further into the realm of scientific vacuity.
    • It's an unpleasant, manipulative trick, but actually pales in comparison with the moral vacuity of the concluding episode.
    • These songs have a deceptive lyrical vacuity that hints at greater depths, but leaves them to the listener to consider.
    • Self-proclaimed "fun" music is notoriously difficult to pull off without slipping towards vacuity.
    • The musical, emotional and intellectual vacuity of much fusion music is patent.
    • Even now, legislators and other government officials bemoan its vacuity and lack of detailed initiatives.
    Synonyms
    empty-headedness, lack of thought, lack of intelligence, brainlessness, denseness, thickness, vacuousness, vacancy, inaneness, inanity, stupidity
  • 2Empty space; emptiness.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The way by which all things emerge from vacuity is the Way.
    • The opening of the infraorbital canal is sunk into a vacuity that penetrates the rostrum.
    • The lateral margins of palatal foramina are visible at the lateral edges of the anterior margin of the apparently single, large palatal vacuity.
    • Neither specimen shows evidence of an incisive foramen or other vacuity in the parts of the palatal process that are preserved.
    • In life, the anterior median vacuity was covered by dermal tooth plates, the parotic or arcual plates.
    • Only the anterior and posterior ends of the anterior interpterygoid vacuity are preserved in the Herschel specimen.

Rhymes

acuity, ambiguity, annuity, assiduity, congruity, contiguity, continuity, exiguity, fatuity, fortuity, gratuity, ingenuity, perpetuity, perspicuity, promiscuity, suety, superfluity, tenuity

Definition of vacuity in US English:

vacuity

noun
  • 1Lack of thought or intelligence; empty-headedness.

    full of excitement, I listened to my first student sermon – only to be taken aback by its vacuity
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's an unpleasant, manipulative trick, but actually pales in comparison with the moral vacuity of the concluding episode.
    • We weren't going to hear praise of our excesses, our shallowness, our engulfing vacuity.
    • The biggest display ads of the season could not disguise the vacuity of the event.
    • And without providing meaningful commentary, the pop-punk boom is doomed to implode due to its own vacuity.
    • Even now, legislators and other government officials bemoan its vacuity and lack of detailed initiatives.
    • This is the making of a generation whose banality is interchangeable with their vacuity.
    • These songs have a deceptive lyrical vacuity that hints at greater depths, but leaves them to the listener to consider.
    • The musical, emotional and intellectual vacuity of much fusion music is patent.
    • I was struck at the time by the vacuity of her response.
    • This shows the vacuity of today's policymaking.
    • Self-proclaimed "fun" music is notoriously difficult to pull off without slipping towards vacuity.
    • His reply was non-committal to the point of vacuity.
    • What was most striking to an outsider's sensibility was the impression that the ferocity of the battle for power was matched only by its vacuity.
    • He championed human values in art and denounced what he considered the frivolity or vacuity of much contemporary painting and sculpture.
    • That sentence is worth reading a couple of times, if only to savour its breathtaking idiocy and vacuity.
    • It was an indulgence of high spirits or, at worst, a vulgar exhibit of personal vanity and artistic vacuity.
    • In other words, Intelligent Design has moved itself further into the realm of scientific vacuity.
    • Early on, she uses a behind-the-scenes look at campaigning to reveal the vacuity of candidates' on-stage convictions.
    • Full of excitement, I listened to my first student sermon - only to be taken aback by its vacuity.
    • What we are left with is an empty, shallow shocker whose vacuity is calamitously exposed in its final act.
    Synonyms
    empty-headedness, lack of thought, lack of intelligence, brainlessness, denseness, thickness, vacuousness, vacancy, inaneness, inanity, stupidity
  • 2Empty space; emptiness.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In life, the anterior median vacuity was covered by dermal tooth plates, the parotic or arcual plates.
    • The opening of the infraorbital canal is sunk into a vacuity that penetrates the rostrum.
    • Neither specimen shows evidence of an incisive foramen or other vacuity in the parts of the palatal process that are preserved.
    • The way by which all things emerge from vacuity is the Way.
    • Only the anterior and posterior ends of the anterior interpterygoid vacuity are preserved in the Herschel specimen.
    • The lateral margins of palatal foramina are visible at the lateral edges of the anterior margin of the apparently single, large palatal vacuity.
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