Vazios

Vazios is the Portuguese plural form of vazio, meaning empty or void. In everyday usage, vazios refers to empty spaces, gaps, or unfilled areas, including physical spaces like rooms or lots and abstract spaces such as gaps in data, memory, or time.

In urban planning and architecture, vazios urbanos describes vacant plots and underused spaces within a city. The term is used to discuss how these spaces can be activated or redeveloped for public use, housing, or mixed-use projects, highlighting the potential of what is currently unoccupied.

In literature and cultural discourse, vazios often function as metaphors for absence, loneliness, or social invisibility. Lusophone writers and artists may employ the term to convey emptiness, the spaces between people, or the absence of meaning in a given context.

Etymology and related terms: vazios derives from vazio, which comes from Latin vacuus, meaning empty or unoccupied. Related terms in other Romance languages include italiano vuoti (plural of vuoto) and español vacíos (plural of vacío). The singular form vazio is used to describe a single empty thing, while vazios emphasizes plural or multiple empties.

See also: vazio; vazios urbanos; emptiness in philosophy and culture.