Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being vacuous, in either sense; vacuity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being vacuous; emptiness; vacuity.

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  • noun the quality of being vacuous

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun indicative of or marked by mental vacuity and an absence of ideas

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Examples

  • Last night Tory Derek claimed he was fed up with the other housemates' "vacuousness" sic.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Kerron Cross 2005

  • The plaintive cry "Don't let the Government get its hands on my Medicare," might be apocryphal, but it highlights the vacuousness of a political movement that is built on deliberate denial by Americans of their own responsibility for the straits in which we find ourselves.

    David Paul: The Problem Is Not Jon Stewart David Paul 2010

  • The plaintive cry "Don't let the Government get its hands on my Medicare," might be apocryphal, but it highlights the vacuousness of a political movement that is built on deliberate denial by Americans of their own responsibility for the straits in which we find ourselves.

    David Paul: The Problem Is Not Jon Stewart David Paul 2010

  • Herman "I don't have facts to back this up" Cain -- whose surge in the polls underscores the vacuousness of both Romney and Perry -- was recently given an opportunity by MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell to acknowledge that sexual preference isn't a choice.

    Michael Sigman: Note to GOP: Sometimes an Opinion Isn't Just an Opinion Michael Sigman 2011

  • The plaintive cry "Don't let the Government get its hands on my Medicare," might be apocryphal, but it highlights the vacuousness of a political movement that is built on deliberate denial by Americans of their own responsibility for the straits in which we find ourselves.

    David Paul: The Problem Is Not Jon Stewart David Paul 2010

  • As for Michelle Rhee, I heartily advise you distance yourself from her before the extent of her vacuousness becomes obvious.

    Matthew Yglesias » Turning Schools into Schools 2009

  • I think that all Paul (Miles) G did was expose American wine consumers as the fickle mob that they are, further validating the vacuousness and self important Parkerist approach to wine: if someone tells me its good then it must be good.

    Vote now! Wine Person of the Decade [the Naughties] | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

  • The plaintive cry "Don't let the Government get its hands on my Medicare," might be apocryphal, but it highlights the vacuousness of a political movement that is built on deliberate denial by Americans of their own responsibility for the straits in which we find ourselves.

    David Paul: The Problem Is Not Jon Stewart David Paul 2010

  • As for Michelle Rhee, I heartily advise you distance yourself from her before the extent of her vacuousness becomes obvious.

    Matthew Yglesias » Turning Schools into Schools 2009

  • The plaintive cry "Don't let the Government get its hands on my Medicare," might be apocryphal, but it highlights the vacuousness of a political movement that is built on deliberate denial by Americans of their own responsibility for the straits in which we find ourselves.

    David Paul: The Problem Is Not Jon Stewart David Paul 2010

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