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Desolation vs Vastity - What's the difference?

desolation | vastity |

As nouns the difference between desolation and vastity

is that desolation is the act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation while vastity is emptiness or desolation.

desolation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
  • The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness]]; destitution; [[gloom, gloominess.
  • A place or country wasted and forsaken.
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    vastity

    English

    Noun

    (vastities)
  • (obsolete) Emptiness or desolation.
  • *, I.2.4.vii:
  • *:Leo Decimus was so much bewailed in Rome after his departure, that, wars, plagues, vastity , discontent.
  • Vastness.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:there is no.