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Meanings of vacuity in English
Synonyms
Examples for "inanity"
Examples for "inanity"
1
Thirty years on I can now recognise the inanity of my question.
2
The inanity of the question enraged even the pleasure-seekers at the back.
3
The ludicrous sublimity of such an ethical snarl reduced him to inanity.
4
It does not consist of ingenuity limited, but merely of inanity expanded.
5
In fact, his physiognomy indicated the inanity of character which pervaded his life.
1
To say nothing of the inhumanity, the senselessness of duelling revolts me.
2
The senselessness of it was growing on him with his increased confidence.
3
The groom ran away, and she put that down to native senselessness.
4
A moment later, the coals of the hearth crackled into senselessness.
5
It disgusted him-yetby its perverse senselessness it angered him too.
1
And that's where the pointlessness of this accessory starts to become clear.
2
What is striking about his move to City is its sheer pointlessness.
3
The Absurdity he identified is the ultimate pointlessness of life in general.
4
This series finale is right up there with Seinfeld's for pointlessness.
5
On the third attempt I am overwhelmed by the pointlessness of the exercise.
1
Instead it ridicules the petty mindlessness of bureaucracy and office politics everywhere.
2
I opted for Chinese, then sat back and enjoyed a state of blissful mindlessness.
3
Even Eden understood the necessity of mindlessness on some occasions.
4
To them, death is violence and miscalculation, mindlessness and cruelty.
5
For a moment, a marvellous, frontier moment, they allowed us to live in blissful mindlessness.
Usage of vacuity in English
1
The vacuity and the superfluity are thus partially compensated by each other.
2
They people the vacuity of Time, and make it green and worthy.
3
A look of dull disappointment struggled with the vacuity of his face.
4
The sheer vacuity of his mind might naturally slide into mesmeric sleep.
5
Pure Space, if it means anything, means absolute material emptiness and vacuity.
6
Gone, too, was the pretense of vacuity, replaced with an eerie purposefulness.
7
On either side, and above my head, there was nothing but vacuity.
8
A tolerant, amiable expression saved the youth's smooth, handsome face from vacuity.
9
His silence was always eloquent, and in it was neither stupidity nor vacuity.
10
The vacuity turned into a smile, and the smile into a broad grin.
11
He takes advantage even of the nakedness and dreary vacuity of his subject.
12
Is it the being asked, or the vacuity of celebrity endorsement?
13
Akulina's face expressed a blank amazement almost comical in its vacuity.
14
I stooped, and stretched my hand forward and downward, but all was vacuity.
15
I stretched out my hands on all sides, but met only with vacuity.
16
Such sudden alternations from mental vacuity do sometimes occur thus quietly.
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Vacuity through the time
Vacuity across language varieties
United Kingdom
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