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Meanings of shallowness in English

Lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling.

The quality of lacking physical depth.

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Examples for "superficiality"
Examples for "superficiality"
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But when other critics accused him of superficiality they were in error.
Victorian Worthies: Sixteen Biographies
2
He said the curse of the age and the country was superficiality.
Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers
3
Instant communication encourages superficiality in the way we talk to each other.
Wired
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Such views belong to the uneducated crudity and superficiality of naïve thinking.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
5
I fancied myself standing before an abyss of superficiality, a veritable void.
On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : A Treatise on Style in the...
Usage of shallowness in English
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Her shallowness soothed him; her inconsequent egotism helped him to forget himself.
The Masquerader
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Their freshness soon withered, on account of the shallowness of the earth.
Philothea: A Grecian Romance
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Your Eminence knows as well as I the shallowness of circumstantial evidence.
Sant' Ilario
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Hume was the first to seek to rise above this unspeakable shallowness.
History of Modern Philosophy / From Nicolas of Cusa to the Prese...
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From the shallowness of his breathing, I could tell he'd been hit.
Desert places: a novel of terror
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Almost beautiful enough... to shame me for the shallowness of my vision.
Agents of light and darkness
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Wallace rivalled Balfe in the facility and shallowness of his melody.
The Opera / A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Desc...
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He considered the shallowness of the abstract Optimist exposed enough in Victor's history.
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 5
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Many were insulted by its incomprehensible erudition; a few growled at its shallowness.
St. Elmo
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The absence of factories has already implied its shallowness and slowness.
Literary and Social Essays
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It's no use having an Order in Council against popular shallowness.
Daniel Deronda
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He felt himself invulnerable-raisedfar above the shallowness of common judgment.
Under Western Eyes
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Even this, however, was encouragement, proving the shallowness of the stream.
Molly McDonald: A Tale of the Old Frontier
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She felt a sort of bitter shame over her own shallowness of feeling.
Robert Elsmere
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Bolingbroke wrote with great liveliness, but with equal shallowness of thought and knowledge.
Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Autho...
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Its feeding-streams are exceedingly beautiful, notwithstanding their inconstancy and extreme shallowness.
The Mountains of California
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