Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Wasteness; desolation; vastness; immensity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Vastness; immensity.

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  • noun uncountable Vastness; immensity

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  • bryan: Vastidity is a noun, not an adjective; if you're going to say "...soilure, tortive, and vastidity, which mean, as one might expect, staining, twisted, and..." you have to finish with a grammatically parallel form, in this case "bigness" or the like.

    languagehat.com: MORE BAD WRITING. 2004

  • III. i.68 (68,8) [Tho 'all the world's vastidity you had,

    Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746

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