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Definition of vacuity : 1. Space unfilled or unoccupied, or occupied with an invisible fluid only; emptiness; void; vacuum.
2. The quality or state of being vacuous, or not filled; emptiness; vacancy; as, vacuity of mind; vacuity of countenance.
3. Want of reality; inanity; nihility.

Synonyms:

rashness, hollowness, stupidity, pointlessness, vacuum, heedlessness, vacuum cleaner, hole, pocket, senselessness, convex, full, hollow, disinterest, disregard, cavity

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

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:

• Signorelli has indeed hardly altered the childish chubby features of the Deacon in the middle, nor the benevolent vacuity of the two Bishops, so different to his own austere types. - "Luca Signorelli", Maud Cruttwell.
• Peevish and ill- conditioned when in pain, stupified with wine when well, and at all times of a dreary vacuity of mind, this pillar of the State, wielder of men's votes, arbiter of parish fates and men's fortunes, was not a lovable man to live with. - "The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant", Alexander Johnstone Wilson.
• She had none of the qualities of the great lady, nothing spiritual or mental with which to fend off the vacuity of old age. - "Saturday's Child", Kathleen Norris.