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vacuity
va-KYOO-uh-tee
noun
the state of being vacuous; a moronic idea
1882Walt WhitmanSpecimen DaysThe attractions, fascinations there are in sea and shore! How one dwells on their simplicity, even vacuity!1885Bret Harte By Shore and Sedge 'That's it. Justifyin' yourself by works instead o' leanin' onto Him! Find Him, sez you! Git Him, sez you! Works is vain. Glory! glory!' he continued, with fluent vacuity and wandering, dull, observant eyes. 1919Camilla KenyonSpanish DoubloonsI listened to their lazy, fragmentary conversation vast gulfs of mental vacuity seemed to open before me.

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