From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vacancy \Va"can*cy\, noun; pl. {Vacancies}. [Cf. F. vacance.]
1. The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.
All dispositions to idleness or vacancy, even before they are habits, are dangerous. --Sir H. Wotton.
2. That which is vacant. Specifically: (a) Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.
How is't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy? --Shak. (b) An open or unoccupied space between bodies or things; an interruption of continuity; chasm; gap; as, a vacancy between buildings; a vacancy between sentences or thoughts. (c) Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.
Time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities. --Milton.
No interim, not a minute's vacancy. --Shak.
Those little vacancies from toil are sweet. --Dryden. (d) A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: being unoccupied
2: an empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space"; "without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum" [syn: {void}, {emptiness}, {vacuum}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "vacancy": absence, absence of mind, appointment, bareness, barrenness, berth, billet, blank, blank mind, blankmindedness, blankness, bleakness, breach, calm of mind, deficiency, deprivation, desertedness, desolateness, employment, emptiness, emptiness of mind, empty-headedness, engagement, fallow mind, fatuity, foolishness, gap, gig, hiatus, hollowness, inanition, inanity, incomprehension, incumbency, jejunity, job, lacuna, mental blankness, mental void, moonlighting, negation, negativeness, negativity, nihility, nirvana, nonbeing, nonentity, nonexistence, noninhabitance, nonoccupance, nonoccupancy, nonoccurrence, nonreality, nonresidence, nonsubsistence, not-being, nothingness, nullity, oblivion, office, opening, passivity, place, place open, position, post, quietism, second job, service, situation, slot, station, tabula rasa, tenure, thoughtfreeness, thoughtlessness, tranquillity, unactuality, unawareness, unintelligence, unreality, vacant post, vacuity, vacuousness, vacuum, vapidity, void, voidness
Define.com is a registered nonprofit corporation dedicated solely to the global public interest and the advancement of humanity. It belongs to all of us who have a desire to promote electronic democracy, science, creativity, imagination, reason, critical thinking, peace, race and gender equality, civil rights, equal access to education, personal liberty, free speech, animal rights, compassionate and nonviolent parenting, social and economic justice, global monetary reform, Secular Humanism, cognitive liberty and a permanent cessation of The War on Drugs.
Let's see what we can do if we put our heads together.
0