vacuousness









vacuousness


adjective

  1. without contents; empty: the vacuous air.
  2. lacking in ideas or intelligence: a vacuous mind.
  3. expressing or characterized by a lack of ideas or intelligence; inane; stupid: a vacuous book.
  4. purposeless; idle: a vacuous way of life.

adjective

  1. containing nothing; empty
  2. bereft of ideas or intelligence; mindless
  3. characterized by or resulting from vacancy of minda vacuous gaze
  4. indulging in no useful mental or physical activity; idle
  5. logic maths (of an operator or expression) having no import; idle: in (x) (John is tall) the quantifier (x) is vacuous
adj.

1640s, “empty,” from Latin vacuus “empty, void, free” (see vacuum). Figurative sense of “empty of ideas” is from 1848. Related: Vacuously; vacuousness.

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