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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 va·cu·i·ty /væˈkjuəti, və-/
 空虛,空白,愚蠢,茫然若失,無聊

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Va·cu·i·ty n.
 1. The quality or state of being vacuous, or not filled; emptiness; vacancy; as, vacuity of mind; vacuity of countenance.
    Hunger is such a state of vacuity as to require a fresh supply of aliment.   --Arbuthnot.
 2. Space unfilled or unoccupied, or occupied with an invisible fluid only; emptiness; void; vacuum.
    A vacuity is interspersed among the particles of matter.   --Bentley.
    God . . . alone can answer all our longings and fill every vacuity of our soul.   --Rogers.
 3. Want of reality; inanity; nihility. [R.]
    Their expectations will meet with vacuity.   --Glanvill.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 vacuity
      n 1: the absence of matter [syn: vacuum]
      2: total absence of matter [syn: vacuousness]
      3: a region empty of matter [syn: vacuum]
      4: total lack of meaning or ideas [syn: inanity, senselessness,
          mindlessness, pointlessness]