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shallowness

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as instupidity

as inthinness
as inilliteracy
as inilliterateness
as innescience
as inobliviousness
as inunawareness
as inunconsciousness
as inunfamiliarity
as incommonplace
as infrivolity
as inignorance

Word Origin & History

c.1400, schalowe "not deep," probably from or related to Old English sceald (see shoal (n.)). Of breathing, attested from 1875; of thought or feeling, "superficial," first recorded 1580s. The noun, usually shallows, is first recorded 1570s, from the adjective.

Example Sentences for shallowness

Their freshness soon withered, on account of the shallowness of the earth.

All that I have seen of life only shows the shallowness of what is called the public service.

Shallowness has this advantage, that you can't be drowned there.'

And here the depth or shallowness of our theology will be sure to tell.

She felt a sort of bitter shame over her own shallowness of feeling.

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Synonyms for shallowness

noun dullness of mind

absurdity
apathy
idiocy
ignorance
lunacy
nonsense
silliness
asininity
fatuity
fatuousness
imbecility
imprudence
incapacity
ineptitude
injudiciousness
insensibility
obtuseness
puerility
shallowness
simplicity
slowness
sluggishness
stolidity
stupefaction
stupor
weakness
battiness
brainlessness
doltishness
feeble-mindedness
nitwittedness
stupidness
thick-headedness
weak-mindedness

Antonyms for shallowness

intelligence
sense
acumen
canniness
judgment
shrewdness
wisdom

More words related to shallowness

commonplace

noun. clichéd saying or idea

banality
bromide
chestnut
cliché
corn
inanity
motto
platitude
prosaicism
prosaism
prose
rubber stamp
shallowness
shibboleth
stereotype
tag
triteness
triviality truism

frivolities

noun. silliness, childishness

coquetting
dallying
flightiness
flippancy
flirting
flummery
folly
fribble
frippery
frivolousness
fun
gaiety
game
giddiness
jest
levity
lightheartedness
lightness
nonsense
play
puerility
shallowness
sport
superficiality
toying
trifling
triviality
volatility
whimsicality
whimsy

frivolity

noun. silliness, childishness

coquetting
dallying
flightiness
flippancy
flirting
flummery
folly
fribble
frippery
frivolousness
fun
gaiety
game
giddiness
jest
levity
lightheartedness
lightness
nonsense
play
puerility
shallowness
sport
superficiality
toying
trifling
triviality
volatility
whimsicality
whimsy

ignorance

noun. unintelligence, inexperience

benightedness
bewilderment
blindness
callowness
crudeness
darkness
denseness
disregard
dumbness
empty-headedness
fog
half-knowledge
illiteracy
incapacity
incomprehension
innocence
inscience
insensitivity
lack of education
mental incapacity
naiveté
nescience
oblivion
obtuseness
philistinism
rawness
sciolism
shallowness
simplicity
unawareness
unconsciousness
uncouthness
unenlightenment
unfamiliarity
unscholarliness
vagueness

illiteracy

noun. ignorance

benightedness
bewilderment
blindness
callowness
crudeness
darkness
denseness
disregard
dumbness
empty-headedness
fog
half-knowledge
illiterateness
incapacity
incomprehension
innocence
inscience
insensitivity
lack of education
mental incapacity
naiveté
nescience
oblivion
obtuseness
philistinism
rawness
sciolism
shallowness
simplicity
unawareness
unconsciousness
uncouthness
unenlightenment
unfamiliarity
unscholarliness
vagueness

illiterateness