vacuity
Absence of substance
Vacuity is emptiness—the state of being vacant or void.
The word usually describes mental or intellectual emptiness: the vacuity of his arguments, She stared with an expression of pure vacuity.
It suggests not just absence of content but absence of substance or meaning.
The plural vacuities can refer to empty remarks or ideas: the vacuities of political discourse.
Without legal effect
- hollownessState of being empty inside
- blanknessState of being empty
- barrennessInability to bear fruit
- desolationState of complete emptiness
nothingness · bareness · sparseness · depletion · absence · lack · dearth · deficiency
Pointless, shallow foolishness
- foolishnessUnwise conduct
- stupidityLack of intelligence
- mindlessnessLack of awareness
- thoughtlessnessLack of careful consideration
shallowness · superficiality · vapidity · fatuity · senselessness · witlessness · brainlessness · dullness
State of being empty
- emptinessAbsence of substance
- flatnessAbsence of slope
- deadnessLack of life
- lifelessnessQuality of having no animation
dullness · impassivity · stolidity · woodenness · inexpressiveness · unresponsiveness · detachment · absent-mindedness
State of lacking meaning
- futilityLack of purpose
- trivialityUnimportant small matter
- frivolityUnserious, lighthearted conduct
- insignificanceLack of consequence or weight
worthlessness · purposelessness · hollowness · superficiality · shallowness · banality · inaneness · pettiness
void
Without legal effect
gap · hole · emptiness · chasm · abyss · gulf · expanse · opening · pocket · recess
void
Without legal effect
- hollownessState of being empty inside
- blanknessState of being empty
- barrennessInability to bear fruit
desolation · nothingness · bareness · sparseness · depletion · absence · lack · dearth · deficiency · gap
inanity
Pointless, shallow foolishness
- foolishnessUnwise conduct
- stupidityLack of intelligence
- mindlessnessLack of awareness
thoughtlessness · shallowness · superficiality · vapidity · fatuity · senselessness · witlessness · brainlessness · dullness · obtuseness
blankness
State of being empty
lifelessness · dullness · impassivity · stolidity · woodenness · inexpressiveness · unresponsiveness · detachment · absent-mindedness · distraction
pointlessness
State of lacking meaning
- futilityLack of purpose
- trivialityUnimportant small matter
- frivolityUnserious, lighthearted conduct
insignificance · worthlessness · purposelessness · hollowness · superficiality · shallowness · banality · inaneness · pettiness · inconsequence
- emptinessemptiness, void, nothingness, blank, hollow
- Nonexistencenothing, nothingness, nonexistence, void, null
- mental statesknowledge, conscious, mood, anxious, memory
- frivolousnesssilliness, whimsy, playfulness, levity, giddiness
- futilityfutile, futility, in vain, pointlessness, vain
vacuityfullness
State of being complete
plenitude · repleteness · repletion · saturation · completeness
vacuityintelligence
Mental ability, cognitive capacity
brilliance · acumen · wisdom · sagacity · cleverness
vacuitysubstance
Physical material with mass
meaningfulness · significance · profundity · depth · richness
vacant, vacuum, vacancy, vacate, evacuation, evacuate, vacuous, vacuuming, vacuums