English

Noun

vastity ‎(plural vastities)

1. (obsolete) Emptiness or desolation.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.2.4.vii:

     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.

2. Vastness.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, 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 […].