Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VA-CU'I-TY, n. [L. vacuitas, from vacuus.]

1. Emptiness; a state of being unfilled. Hunger is such a state of vacuity as to require a fresh supply. – Arbuthnot.
2. Space unfilled or unoccupied, or occupied with an invisible fluid only. A vacuity is interspersed among the particles of matter . – Bentley.
3. Emptiness; void. God only can fill every vacuity of the soul. – Rogers.
4. Inanity; emptiness; want of reality. – Granville.
5. Vacuum – which see.