shallowness

Noun

Meaning

Quality or state of being shallow.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

superficiality shallow simplicity darkness innocence nonsense blindness illiteracy futility incapacity lightness oblivion inadequacy silliness fineness
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Antonyms

deepness depth drop literacy appreciation comprehension
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Hypernyms

deepness depth

Hyponyms

superficiality slickness glibness sciolism

Examples

The supreme vice is shallowness. Oscar Wilde

He was out of tune with what a younger generation of poets were writing, and railed against the shallowness and commercialisation of the modern world, from his fastness: a farmhouse surrounded by orchards in Middleton, Suffolk. Michael Hamburger

"Anita,” he asked, "are there really werewolves?” "Yes,” she told him. "Your werewolves are down there.” And that was right, he thought. The darkness of the mind, the bleakness of the thought, the shallowness of purpose. These were the werewolves of the world. Clifford D. Simak

Your shallowness or greatness of the soul shows up in your aura. Harbhajan Singh Yogi

I feel a kind of intellectual regret, not an emotional regret, at having left my parents and that world behind. But it's not a great weight on my soul. In a way I wish it were. To leave one's background without guilt is an indication of shallowness of character, I suspect. John Banville

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness. Henry Rollins

Close letter words and terms

shallowing shallowish shallowly shallowpate shallows shallu