English-Thai Dictionary

vacuity

N ความว่างเปล่า  ความว่าง  สุญญากาศ  สิ่ง ว่างเปล่า  สิ่ง ที่ ไร้ ความหมาย  emptiness vaccum void kwam-wang-plao

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VACUITY

n.[L. vacuitas, from vacuus.] 1. Emptiness; a state of being unfilled.
Hunger is such a state of vacuity as to require a fresh supply.
2. Space unfilled or unoccupied, or occupied with an invisible fluid only.
3. Emptiness; void.
God only can fill every vacuity of the soul.
4. Inanity; emptiness; want of reality.
5. Vacuum, which see.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

VACUITY

Va *cu "i *ty, n. Etym: [L. vacuitas. See Vacuous. ]

 

1. The quality or state of being vacuous, or not filled; emptiness; vacancy; as, vacuity of mind; vacuity of countenance. Hunger is such a state of vacuity as to require a fresh supply of aliment. Arbuthnot.

 

2. 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. .. alone can answer all our longings and fill every vacuity of our soul. Rogers.

 

3. Want of reality; inanity; nihility. [R.] Their expectations will meet with vacuity. Glanvill.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

vacuity

va cu i ty |vaˈkyo͞oətē, və -vəˈkjuːəti | ▶noun 1 lack of thought or intelligence; empty-headedness: full of excitement, I listened to my first student sermon – only to be taken aback by its vacuity. 2 empty space; emptiness.

 

Oxford Dictionary

vacuity

vacuity |vəˈkjuːɪti | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 lack of thought or intelligence; empty-headedness: he denounced what he considered the frivolity or vacuity of much contemporary painting. 2 empty space; emptiness.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

vacuity

vacuity noun the book's principal defect remains the vacuity of its protagonist: empty-headedness, lack of thought, lack of intelligence, brainlessness, denseness, thickness, vacuousness, vacancy, inaneness, inanity, stupidity. ANTONYMS intelligence, depth.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

vacuity

va cu i ty /vækjú (ː )əti, və -/名詞 複 -ties ｟かたく ｠1 U C 空 （から ）の状態, 空虚 ; 欠如 .2 U 無知, 放心 .3 C ばかげたもの ; くだらない話 .