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HOLLOWNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical
Synonyms:
falseness; hollowness; insincerity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("hollowness" is a kind of...):
untruthfulness (the quality of being untruthful)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hollowness"):
hypocrisy (insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have)
Derivation:
hollow (devoid of significance or force)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The property of having a sunken area
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("hollowness" is a kind of...):
concaveness; concavity (the property possessed by a concave shape)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The state of being hollow: having an empty space within
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("hollowness" is a kind of...):
emptiness (the state of containing nothing)
Antonym:
solidity (state of having the interior filled with matter)
Derivation:
hollow (not solid; having a space or gap or cavity)
