English noun: shallowness | |||
| 1. | shallowness (attribute) lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling | ||
| Synonyms | superficiality | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | depth | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | glibness, sciolism, slickness | ||
| Antonyms | profundity, profoundness | ||
| 2. | shallowness (attribute) the quality of lacking physical depth | ||
| Samples | Take into account the shallowness at that end of the pool before you dive. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | deepness, depth | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | superficiality | ||
| Antonyms | deepness, profoundness, profundity | ||