SHALLOWNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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)