vacuousness
/ˈvækju.əsnəs/noun
vacuousness is a noun meaning “Being empty” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-C-U-O-U-S-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does vacuousness mean?
noun
- 1
Being empty.
- 2
Being stupid.
Near-synonyms: fatuity, fatuousness
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vacuousness?
- /ˈvækju.əsnəs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Moire9-vacuousness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is vacuousness?
Vacuousness appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Vacuousness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense noun:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | vacuidad |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does vacuousness come from?
From vacuous + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).