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Vastity vs Vastness - What's the difference?

vastity | vastness |

As nouns the difference between vastity and vastness

is that vastity is emptiness or desolation while vastness is the quality of being vast.

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.

    • vastness

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality of being vast.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
  • (countable) Something vast.

    • Synonyms

    * enormity * immensity