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Definition of vacancy:

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

Synonyms:

opening, full, vacuum, void, quarters, vanity, vacuum cleaner, emptiness, lodging, hollowness.

absence (part of speech: noun)
- lack,
- truancy,
- absence,
- want,
- omission,
- emptiness,
- abstraction,
- void,
- nonexistence,
- vacuity
thoughtlessness (part of speech: noun)
- fatuity,
- blankness,
- thoughtlessness,
- inanity,
- mindlessness,
- unreasonableness,
- brainlessness,
- emptiness,
- vacuity
unsubstantiality (part of speech: noun)
- insignificance,
- nonexistence,
- cipher,
- spectre,
- tenuousness,
- nothingness,
- impalpability,
- nihility,
- vacuity,
- emptiness,
- intangibility,
- nullity,
- unreality,
- immateriality,
- phantom,
- zero,
- ethereality,
- apparition,
- mirage
nonexistence (part of speech: noun)
- cipher,
- nullity,
- nihility,
- vacuity,
- void,
- barrenness,
- emptiness,
- nonexistence,
- null,
- vacuousness,
- nonentity,
- nil,
- nothingness,
- meaninglessness,
- naught,
- non-subsistence

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.