vacuity vs region

vacuity and region both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
vacuity	Yes	No	No	No
region	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, region is a hypernym of vacuity; that is, region is a word with a broader meaning than vacuity:

Other hypernyms of vacuity include part.

vacuity (noun)	region (noun)
total lack of meaning or ideas	a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve
a region that is devoid of matter	a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about
the absence of matter	the extended spatial location of something
	a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth
	the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')