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SHALLOWNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling
Synonyms:
shallowness; superficiality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
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
Example:
take into account the shallowness at that end of the pool before you dive
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
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)
