How to pronounce “horror vacui”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (historical, sciences) The Aristotelian principle that there are no vacuums in nature.
• The abhorrence of a vacuum; the general tendency to dislike empty space.
• (art) In particular, the tendency of an artist (or of art) to fill an entire surface with detail, leaving no blank space.

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