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Definition of vacancy : 1. A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.
2. 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.
3. Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.
4. That which is vacant.
5. The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.
6. Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.

Synonyms:

quarters, opening, full, hollowness, vanity, lodging, vacuum cleaner, vacuum

lack, truancy, absence, want, omission, emptiness, abstraction, void, nonexistence, vacuity

fatuity, inanity, brainlessness, blankness, mindlessness, unreasonableness, thoughtlessness

cipher, spectre, insignificance, tenuousness, zero, apparition, ethereality, nothingness, phantom, unreality, nihility, intangibility, nullity, immateriality, impalpability, mirage

nonentity, nil, null, vacuousness, naught, non-subsistence, meaninglessness, barrenness

Usage examples:

• Panting for breath, Barbara gazed a long time into vacancy. - "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers", Georg Ebers.
• In a few seconds a considerable vacancy was burnt before me, which I traversed with the speed of a man that flies from instant death. - "The History of Sandford and Merton", Thomas Day.
• Gelimer gazed silently into vacancy. - "The Scarlet Banner", Felix Dahn.