shallowness

Other forms of shallowness

plural

shallownesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shallowness

What does shallowness mean?

shallowness means "lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shallowness?

shallowness has 3 syllables: shal-low-ness. The stress falls on "shal". In IPA it is /ˈʃæloʊnəs/.

What is another word for shallowness?

Close synonyms include superficiality. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of shallowness?

The recorded antonyms are deepness.

Is shallowness a common word?

shallowness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.