vacuity
Collocations
4ADJ.
happy, pompous, psittaceous
VERB + VACUITY
breach
VACUITY + NOUN
course, ventriloquial, verbosity
PREP.
about, in
Definitions
noun
Emptiness.
The meanes I use to suppresse this frenzy, and which seemeth the fittest for my purpose, is to crush, and trample this humane pride and fiercenesse under foot, to make them feele the emptinesse, vacuitie, and no worth of man[…].
to find so sensible a breach or vacuity in the course of the passions, by means of this breach in the connexion of ideas[…].
Physical emptiness, an absence of matter; vacuum.
Idleness; listlessness.
An empty or inane remark or thing.
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Idioms & Phrases
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4The meanes I use to suppresse this frenzy, and which seemeth the fittest for my purpose, is to crush, and trample this humane pride and fiercenesse under foot, to make them feele the emptinesse, vacui
Wiktionaryto find so sensible a breach or vacuity in the course of the passions, by means of this breach in the connexion of ideas[…].
WiktionaryThe Baronet was not more animated than ordinarily—there was a happy vacuity about him which enabled him to face a dinner, a death, a church, a marriage, with the same indifferent ease.
WiktionarySedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity.
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