shallowness

Other forms: shallownesses

Definitions of shallowness
  1. noun
    the quality of lacking physical depth
    “take into account the shallowness at that end of the pool before you dive”
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    antonyms:
    deepness
    the quality of being physically deep
    types:
    superficiality
    shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something
    type of:
    deepness, depth
    the extent downward or backward or inward
  2. noun
    lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling
    synonyms: superficiality
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    types:
    glibness, slickness
    a kind of fluent easy superficiality
    sciolism
    pretentious superficiality of knowledge
    type of:
    depth
    degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
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