vastity

== English == === Etymology === From vast +‎ -ity, from Middle French vastité or its source, Latin vastitas. Compare Middle English wastite. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈvɑːstɪti/, /ˈvɑːstəti/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈvæstɪti/, /ˈvæstəti/ === Noun === vastity (countable and uncountable, plural vastities) (obsolete) Emptiness or desolation. Vastness. , II.12: there is no […] soule so skittish and stubborne, that hath not a feeling of some reverence in considering the clowdy vastitie and gloomie canapies of our churches […].