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Vacancy vs Inoccupancy - What's the difference?

vacancy | inoccupancy |

As nouns the difference between vacancy and inoccupancy

is that vacancy is an unoccupied position or job while inoccupancy is the state of having no occupants, the state of being unoccupied.

vacancy

English

Noun

(vacancies)
  • An unoccupied position or job.
  • An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
  • Empty space.
  • *1993 , James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love , Book II:
  • *:Sky was set above earth, land ringed with sea, / Chaos retired to its own vacancy [...].
  • Lack of intelligence or understanding.
  • (physics) A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice

    • Related terms

    * vacant adjective * vacate verb

    inoccupancy

    English

    Noun

    (inoccupancies)
  • The state of having no occupants, the state of being unoccupied.
  • The period of time during which a property is not rented.

    • Antonyms

    *occupancy