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SHALLOWNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shallowness mean? 

SHALLOWNESS (noun)
  The noun SHALLOWNESS has 2 senses:

1. lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feelingplay

2. the quality of lacking physical depthplay

  Familiarity information: SHALLOWNESS used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SHALLOWNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

shallowness; superficiality

Hypernyms ("shallowness" is a kind of...):

depth (degree of psychological or intellectual profundity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shallowness"):

glibness; slickness (a kind of fluent easy superficiality)

sciolism (pretentious superficiality of knowledge)

Derivation:

shallow (lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of lacking physical depth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

take into account the shallowness at that end of the pool before you dive

Hypernyms ("shallowness" is a kind of...):

deepness; depth (the extent downward or backward or inward)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shallowness"):

superficiality (shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something)

Antonym:

deepness (the quality of being physically deep)

Derivation:

shallow (lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center)


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