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Vacancy vs Vacuity - What's the difference?

vacancy | vacuity |

As nouns the difference between vacancy and vacuity

is that vacancy is an unoccupied position or job while vacuity is emptiness.

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

    vacuity

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Noun

    (vacuities)
  • Emptiness.
  • * , II.12:
    • 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.
  • * 1748 , (David Hume), Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , III.13:
    • 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.
  • An empty or inane remark or thing.

    • External links

    * ("vacuity" on Wikipedia)