VACANCY

void, vacancy, emptiness, vacuum

(noun) an empty area or space; “the huge desert voids”; “the emptiness of outer space”; “without their support he’ll be ruling in a vacuum”

vacancy

(noun) being unoccupied

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

vacancy (countable and uncountable, plural vacancies)

An unoccupied position or job.

An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.

Empty space.

Lack of intelligence or understanding.

(physics) A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice

Source: Wiktionary

Va"can*cy, n.; pl. Vacancies. Etym: [Cf. F. vacance.]

1. The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness. All dispositions to idleness or vacancy, even before they are habits, are dangerous. Sir H. Wotton.

2. That which is vacant. Specifically: -- (a) Empty space; vacuity; vacuum. How is't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy Shak.

(b) 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. (c) Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation. Time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities. Milton. No interim, not a minute's vacancy. Shak. Those little vacancies from toil are sweet. Dryden.

(d) A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition