vacuity
English
/væˈkjuːɪtɪ/, /vaˈkjuːɪti/
noun
Definitions
- Emptiness.
- Physical emptiness, an absence of matter; vacuum.
- Idleness; listlessness.
- An empty or inane remark or thing.
Etymology
Derived from Latin vacuitās (empty space, vacuity, vacancy) affix from English vacuous root from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (empty, be lacking, be empty, abandon, leave, wasted, lack, deserted).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₁weh₂-
Gloss
empty, be lacking, be empty, abandon, leave, wasted, lack, deserted
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Cognates and derived terms
- devastate English
- evanesce English
- vacuous English
- vacuously English
- vacuousness English
- evanescere Latin
- evanesco, evanescere Latin
- vacans Latin
- vacantia Latin
- vacuitās Latin
- vacuus Latin
- vacātus Latin
- vanus Latin
- vastus Latin
- vocitus Latin
- vānitas Latin
- vānus Latin
- ēvānēscēns Latin
- vacuité French
- *h₁uh₂nós Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁weh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂weh₁yu- Proto-Indo-European
- *wanatōną Proto-Germanic
- *wanaz Proto-Germanic
- *wanōną Proto-Germanic
- *wōstinī Proto-Germanic
- wēstiġ Old English
- vanbúinn Old Norse
- fás Old Irish
- *wakos Proto-Italic
- *wōstī Frankish