vacuity

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

VACU'ITY, noun [Latin 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.
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