Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

in a vacuum

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English

Syllables: in- a -vac-u-um
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

5

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

prep_phrase

Divorced from its proper context and therefore suffering from incomplete analysis.

Example Sentences

"He is fond of saying that "nothing happens in a vacuum", by which he means that external factors always matter in at least some ways; sometimes he exaggerates this principle by claiming polemically that "there are no coincidences"."
"Speaking at a UN general debate on the Middle East in New York, Guterres created fury when he said: “It is important to … recognise the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.”"

Phrases

horror vacui nature abhors a vacuum

Frequently Paired Words

horror vacui nature abhors a vacuum

Questions

What does in a vacuum mean?: Divorced from its proper context and therefore suffering from incomplete analysis.

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