Vacuity vs Vacuate - What's the difference?
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Emptiness.
* , II.12:
* 1748 , (David Hume), Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , III.13:
Physical emptiness, an absence of matter; vacuum.
Idleness.
An empty or inane remark or thing.
To empty, to clear out.
* 1861 , W. R. Wilde, On Aural Diagnosis and Diseases of the Mastoid Process'', in ''The Medical Times and Gazette , volume 1, page 488
Vacuity is a related term of vacuate.
As a noun vacuity
is emptiness.As a verb vacuate is
to empty, to clear out.vacuity
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(vacuities)- 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.
- to find so sensible a breach or vacuity in the course of the passions, by means of this breach in the connexion of ideas.
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Verb
(vacuat)- Mr. Toynbee recommends, in cases of ruptured membrane tympani, "directing the stream of water [in syringing] through the orifice of the membrane into the tympanum in oder to vacuate the latter cavity of its contents."