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Vacuity vs Deficiency - What's the difference?

vacuity | deficiency |

As nouns the difference between vacuity and deficiency

is that vacuity is emptiness while deficiency is (uncountable) inadequacy or incompleteness.

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.
  • deficiency

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.}}
  • (countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-31, volume=408, issue=8851, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Promotion and self-promotion , passage=One of academia’s deficiencies is that, though its lecture halls and graduate schools are replete with women, its higher echelons are not. Often, this is seen as a phenomenon specific to the sciences. … In fact, the disparity applies to the whole grove. Another report from 2006, by the American Association of University Professors, found the same ratio in the faculties of arts, humanities and social science, too.}}
  • (geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
  • (geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
  • Antonyms

    * excess