NOUN | attribute | shallowness, superficiality | lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling |
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attribute | shallowness | the quality of lacking physical depth |
Sounds | shae'lownahs | |
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Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... |
Meaning | lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling. | |
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Synonym | superficiality | |
Narrower | glibness, slickness | A kind of fluent easy superficiality |
sciolism | pretentious superficiality of knowledge | |
Broader | depth | degree of psychological or intellectual profundity |
Opposite | profundity, profoundness | Intellectual depth |
Spanish | ligereza, superficialidad | |
Adjectives | shallow | lacking depth of intellect or knowledge |
Meaning | The quality of lacking physical depth. | |
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Example | "take into account the shallowness at that end of the pool before you dive" | |
Narrower | superficiality | shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something |
Broader | depth, deepness | The extent downward or backward or inward |
Opposite | deepness, profundity, profoundness | The quality of being physically deep |
Spanish | superficialidad | |
Adjectives | shallow | lacking physical depth |
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