What's the difference between vacuous and vacuousness?

Vacuous


Definition:

  • (a.) Empty; unfilled; void; vacant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A different pattern was observed in the open cage test, where both neuroleptic groups showed significant increases in vacuous OMs during drug administration which rapidly became attenuated upon drug withdrawal.
  • (2) Vacuous chewing movements in rats may be an animal analogue of the human motor disorder, tardive dyskinesia.
  • (3) Buckman will also accuse the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, of responding to growing problems in the NHS with "cheap soundbites and vacuous political point scoring", such as wrongly blaming GPs and out-of-hours services for rising attendances at A&E units.
  • (4) This criticism can be extended of course to other forms of online communities, such as Facebook, where contact-less friendships are reduced to pokes, LOLs, and vacuous innuendos.
  • (5) Previous studies have shown that the emergence of spontaneous dyskinetic behaviors, such as vacuous chewing movements, following several months of neuroleptic treatment in the rat, is correlated with depletion of nigral GABA.
  • (6) Vacuous jaw movements that resemble chewing were produced by dopamine depletion in the ventrolateral striatum, but not the anteroventromedial or dorsolateral striatum.
  • (7) And one might nod as one hears banal and vacuous philosophical themes such as "change begins with you" or "every little thing helps".
  • (8) A dose-related increase in vacuous chewing was induced by injections of pilocarpine in the ventrolateral but not the ventromedial striatum.
  • (9) The announcement was dismissed as window dressing by the shadow home office minister Lady Smith, and as "vacuous and cynical posturing" by Steven Woolfe, a Ukip immigration spokesman.
  • (10) Hedonistic, vacuous, self-important and delusional.
  • (11) The Guardian's Charlie Brooker created the character of Nathan Barley , a vacuous media playboy, back in 1999, around the same time the east London fanzine The Shoreditch Twat began published its first edition.
  • (12) The crest of mitochondria was blur, coalescent and vacuous.
  • (13) I suspect a lot of people will write Kim Kardashian’s Hollywood off as a vacuous game about a vacuous person, using a cynical business model that preys on stupid players who wouldn’t know a “proper game” if it snogged them on the pillion.
  • (14) In contrast, bilateral microinfusions of muscimol into the nigrocollicular target region, in the deep layers of superior colliculus, blocked elicitation of gnawing by intranigral muscimol, but completely spared elicitation of vacuous chewing movements by intranigral isoniazid.
  • (15) In an era when art has increasingly become a vacuous wealth statement or part of an investment portfolio, Banksy continues to be seen by many as a pomposity-pricking man of the people.
  • (16) The influence of stressful experiences on the development of vacuous chewing movements (VCM) was investigated in non-medicated rats.
  • (17) Intranigral infusion of GABA agonists causes stereotyped licking and gnawing in rats, while intranigral GABA antagonists produce vacuous chewing movements.
  • (18) The ECC report: "DECC's stated objectives for reforming the electricity market are uncontentious but vacuous.
  • (19) Almost as vacuous as Clegg's contribution to the leadership debates, you might think.
  • (20) The development of vacuous chewing movements (VCMs), and changes in glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) and choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) activities in extrapyramidal nuclei were examined in rats treated chronically with neuroleptics.

Vacuousness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being vacuous; emptiness; vacuity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A different pattern was observed in the open cage test, where both neuroleptic groups showed significant increases in vacuous OMs during drug administration which rapidly became attenuated upon drug withdrawal.
  • (2) Vacuous chewing movements in rats may be an animal analogue of the human motor disorder, tardive dyskinesia.
  • (3) Buckman will also accuse the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, of responding to growing problems in the NHS with "cheap soundbites and vacuous political point scoring", such as wrongly blaming GPs and out-of-hours services for rising attendances at A&E units.
  • (4) This criticism can be extended of course to other forms of online communities, such as Facebook, where contact-less friendships are reduced to pokes, LOLs, and vacuous innuendos.
  • (5) Previous studies have shown that the emergence of spontaneous dyskinetic behaviors, such as vacuous chewing movements, following several months of neuroleptic treatment in the rat, is correlated with depletion of nigral GABA.
  • (6) Vacuous jaw movements that resemble chewing were produced by dopamine depletion in the ventrolateral striatum, but not the anteroventromedial or dorsolateral striatum.
  • (7) And one might nod as one hears banal and vacuous philosophical themes such as "change begins with you" or "every little thing helps".
  • (8) A dose-related increase in vacuous chewing was induced by injections of pilocarpine in the ventrolateral but not the ventromedial striatum.
  • (9) The announcement was dismissed as window dressing by the shadow home office minister Lady Smith, and as "vacuous and cynical posturing" by Steven Woolfe, a Ukip immigration spokesman.
  • (10) Hedonistic, vacuous, self-important and delusional.
  • (11) The Guardian's Charlie Brooker created the character of Nathan Barley , a vacuous media playboy, back in 1999, around the same time the east London fanzine The Shoreditch Twat began published its first edition.
  • (12) The crest of mitochondria was blur, coalescent and vacuous.
  • (13) I suspect a lot of people will write Kim Kardashian’s Hollywood off as a vacuous game about a vacuous person, using a cynical business model that preys on stupid players who wouldn’t know a “proper game” if it snogged them on the pillion.
  • (14) In contrast, bilateral microinfusions of muscimol into the nigrocollicular target region, in the deep layers of superior colliculus, blocked elicitation of gnawing by intranigral muscimol, but completely spared elicitation of vacuous chewing movements by intranigral isoniazid.
  • (15) In an era when art has increasingly become a vacuous wealth statement or part of an investment portfolio, Banksy continues to be seen by many as a pomposity-pricking man of the people.
  • (16) The influence of stressful experiences on the development of vacuous chewing movements (VCM) was investigated in non-medicated rats.
  • (17) Intranigral infusion of GABA agonists causes stereotyped licking and gnawing in rats, while intranigral GABA antagonists produce vacuous chewing movements.
  • (18) The ECC report: "DECC's stated objectives for reforming the electricity market are uncontentious but vacuous.
  • (19) Almost as vacuous as Clegg's contribution to the leadership debates, you might think.
  • (20) The development of vacuous chewing movements (VCMs), and changes in glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) and choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) activities in extrapyramidal nuclei were examined in rats treated chronically with neuroleptics.

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