vacuüm

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Definition of vacuüm in English English dictionary

Alternative spelling of vacuum

Franklin Roosevelt was showing that democracy was capable of taking care of its own; the New Deal was filling the vacuüm of faith which we had inherited from the cynicism and complacency of the twenties, and from the breadlines of the early thirtees.

Hyphenation

va·cu·um

Turkish pronunciation

väkyum

Synonyms

hoover, hoovering, exhaustion, free space, gap, nothingness, rarefaction, space, vacuity, void

Antonyms

plenum, fullness

Pronunciation

/ˈvakyo͞om/ /ˈvækjuːm/

Etymology

() From Dutch vacuüm, from Latin vacuum, the substantivated neutrum of the adjective vacuus (“empty”); spelt with a diæresis added to specify the trisyllabic pronunciation (as opposed to the disyllabic *).