shallowness

shal·low  (shl)

adj. shal·low·er, shal·low·est

1. Measuring little from bottom to top or surface; lacking physical depth.

2. Lacking depth of intellect, emotion, or knowledge: "This is a shallow parody of America" (Lloyd Rose).

3. Marked by insufficient inhalation of air; weak: shallow respirations.

4. In the part of a playing area that is closer to home plate: shallow left field.

n.

A part of a body of water of little depth; a shoal. Often used in the plural: abandoned the boat in the shallows.

tr. & intr.v. shal·lowed, shal·low·ing, shal·lows

To make or become shallow.

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[Middle English schalowe.]

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shallow·ly adv.

shallow·ness n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	shallowness - lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling superficiality depth - degree of psychological or intellectual profundity glibness, slickness - a kind of fluent easy superficiality; "the glibness of a high-pressure salesman" sciolism - pretentious superficiality of knowledge
	2.	shallowness - the quality of lacking physical depth; "take into account the shallowness at that end of the pool before you dive" depth, deepness - the extent downward or backward or inward; "the depth of the water"; "depth of a shelf"; "depth of a closet" superficiality - shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something; "he ignored the wound because of its superficiality" deepness, profoundness, profundity - the quality of being physically deep; "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile"

Translations

shallowness [ˈʃæləʊnɪs] N

1. [of water, pool] → poca profundidad f

2. [of breathing] → superficialidad f

3. [of person] → superficialidad f

shallowness [ˈʃæləʊnɪs] n

[water] → faible profondeur f

[person, mind, conversation, novel] → superficialité f

shallowness

n → Flachheit f; (of water also) → Seichtheit f; (of soil) → Dünne f; (Physiol: of breathing) → Schwäche f; (fig, of talk, person, novel) → Seichtheit f, → Oberflächlichkeit f