shallowness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: shal=low=ness

CIDE DICTIONARY

shallowness, n. 

 Quality or state of being shallow.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

shallowness

a little learning, absentmindedness, amateurism, appearance, big deal, carelessness, dilettantism, dilettantship, disregard, disregardfulness, distraction, emptiness, exteriority, externality, externalness, extrinsicality, flightiness, flimsiness, flippancy, fluffiness, foolishness, foreignness, frivolity, frivolousness, frothiness, futility, giddiness, glimmering, glimpse, half-learning, heedlessness, idleness, imperfect knowledge, inadvertence, inadvertency, inanity, inattention, inattentiveness, inconsideration, incuriosity, indifference, inobservance, lack of depth, levity, lightmindedness, lightness, manner, mien, negligence, nonobservance, nugacity, obliviousness, openness, outerness, outward appearance, outwardness, regardlessness, sciolism, seeming, semi-learning, shallow-wittedness, silliness, slenderness, slight knowledge, slightness, smattering, smattering of ignorance, smattering of knowledge, superficiality, surface-scratching, thinness, thoughtlessness, triflingness, triteness, triviality, trivialness, unalertness, unawareness, unconsciousness, unheedfulness, unintentiveness, unmindfulness, unobservance, unprofoundness, unprofundity, unwariness, unwatchfulness, vacuity, vague notion, vanity, vapidity, volatility

ROGET THESAURUS

shallowness

Shallowness

N shallowness, shoals, mere scratch, shallow, slight, superficial, skin deep, ankle deep, knee deep, just enough to wet one's feet, shoal, shoaly.