[brnt]

Or neighbourhood. I have neighbours with horror vacui: they just need noise 24x7 and their garden is no exception.

I really do not understand this feature. If I want to listen to music without headphone, I'm going to sit down in front of my stereo where sound is best.

[justinclift]

"horror vacui" on wikipedia doesn't really seem to be turning up anything appropriate to explain what you're meaning?

[tengwar2]

You might know it as "Nature abhors a vacuum". Originally it was a statement of Cartesian physics: the idea was that "action at a distance" was impossible, and since distant objects did clearly interact (through gravity and light), all of space has to be completely filled with particulate matter (assumed to be in vortex motion). From this and "cogito ergo sum" it was possible to build a model of physics which extended to the ethics of how you should treat your dog.

However here it is used as a simple figure of speech rather than literally: the neighbours don't like to lrave anything unfilled with sound.

[kashunstva]

“horror vacui” (Latin) - “dread of the void”

I suppose the neighbours are of the sort, like many seemingly, who cannot tolerate silence.