the quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.-that which is vacant.-empty space; vacuity; vacuum.-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.-unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.-a place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.