shallowness
/'ʃælounis/
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Definition
- Noun:
- The quality of lacking physical depth: The state or condition of having little distance from the top or surface to the bottom.
- Lack of depth of knowledge, thought, or feeling: The quality of not being serious, profound, or intellectually or emotionally deep; superficiality.
Examples of Usage
Noun (Physical Depth):
- The shallowness of the water made it safe for the children to wade.
- The engineer warned about the shallowness of the foundation.
Noun (Intellectual/Emotional Depth):
- The critic dismissed the novel for its intellectual shallowness.
- His apology was met with skepticism due to the perceived shallowness of his remorse.
Advanced Usage
- "to betray a certain shallowness": to reveal a lack of depth in one's character or understanding.
- His glib remarks about the complex issue betrayed a certain shallowness.
Variants and Related Words
Shallow (adj): Not deep; lacking depth.
- The river is shallow here.
- He has a shallow understanding of philosophy.
Shallowly (adv): In a shallow manner.
- He breathed shallowly after the run.
Synonyms
- Superficiality: Concern with only the obvious or apparent; lack of thoroughness or depth.
- Frivolity: Lack of seriousness; lightheartedness, often suggesting unimportance.
- Triviality: The quality of being of little importance or significance.
Antonyms
- Depth: Intellectual or emotional profundity; the quality of being deep.
- Profundity: Great depth of insight or knowledge.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- "A mile wide and an inch deep": An idiom describing something or someone that has broad but very shallow knowledge or appeal.
- His knowledge of history is a mile wide and an inch deep.
Noun
- the quality of lacking physical depth
- take into account the shallowness at that end of the pool before you dive
- lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling