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Shallowness
[shal-oh] 
| Concept: | Shallowness. |
| Category: | 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
shallowness; shoals; mere scratch.
-adjectives
shallow, slight, superficial; skin deep, ankle deep, knee deep; just enough to wet one's feet; shoal, shoaly.
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| Antonyms: | depth |
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| Main Entry: | frivolity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | silliness, childishness |
| Synonyms: | 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 |
| Antonyms: | sensibility, seriousness, wiseness |
| Main Entry: | ignorance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unintelligence, inexperience |
| Synonyms: | 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 |
| Antonyms: | competence, cultivation, education, experience, intelligence, knowledge, literacy, talent, wisdom |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stupidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness of mind |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, apathy, asininity, battiness, brainlessness, doltishness, fatuity, fatuousness, feeble-mindedness, idiocy, ignorance, imbecility, imprudence, incapacity, ineptitude, injudiciousness, insensibility, lunacy, nitwittedness, nonsense, obtuseness, puerility, shallowness, silliness, simplicity, slowness, slowness, sluggishness, stolidity, stupefaction, stupidness, stupor, thick-headedness, weak-mindedness, weakness |
| Antonyms: | intelligence, judgment, wisdom |
| Main Entry: | thinness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slenderness |
| Synonyms: | delicacy, emaciation, fineness, gauntness, inadequacy, incompactness, meagerness, rarity, scantiness, shallowness, slimness, spareness, sparseness, subtilization, subtilty, tenuity |
| Antonyms: | fatness |
| Main Entry: | illiteracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| Synonyms: | 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illiterateness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| Synonyms: | 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nescience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| Synonyms: | benightedness, bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, denseness, disregard, dumbness, empty-headedness, fog*, half-knowledge, illiteracy, illiterateness, incapacity, incomprehension, innocence, inscience, insensitivity, lack of education, mental incapacity, naiveté, oblivion, obliviousness, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unawareness, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness, vagueness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | obliviousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| Synonyms: | 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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