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Vacancy vs Vagancy - What's the difference?

vacancy | vagancy |

As nouns the difference between vacancy and vagancy

is that vacancy is an unoccupied position or job while vagancy is (obsolete) a wandering; vagrancy.

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

    vagancy

    English

    Noun

    (vagancies)
  • (obsolete) A wandering; vagrancy.
    • A thousand vagancies of glory and delight. — Milton.
    (Webster 1913)