vastity/ˈvɑːstɪti/EtymologyFrom vast + -ity, from Middle French vastité or its source, Latin vastitas. Compare Middle English wastite.nounEmptiness or desolation.“Leo Decimus was so much bewailed in Rome after his departure, that[…]all good fellowship, peace, mirth, and plenty died with him, tanquam eodem sepulchro cum Leone condita lugebantur; for it was a golden age whilst he lived, but after his decease an iron season succeeded[…], wars, plagues, vastity, discontent.”Vastness.“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 […].”