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shallowness|ˈʃæləʊnɪs|
[f. shallow a.1 + -ness.]
The quality of being shallow: a. in physical senses.
1552Huloet, Shallownes or sholenes in water, uadum. 1555Eden Decades i. iii. (Arb.) 77 The keeles of the shippes often tymes rased the sandes for shalownes of the water. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 512 The cause of greater tides he thinketh to be the shallownesse, and narrower shoares. 1707Mortimer Husb. xiii. 284 It may prove very commodious to place the Bed of the Cart under the Axle-tree at such a distance as the depth or shallowness of the Ways or Waters you are to go thro' requires. 1849Parker Introd. Gothic Archit. (1874) i. iii. 45 The wide-jointing of the masonry and the shallowness of the carving distinguish the old work from the new. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 17 The extreme shallowness of the Thames basin. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 891 An increasing shallowness of breathing down to absolute cessation.
b. Want of depth of character, thought, knowledge, etc.; superficiality.
1590Greenwood Answ. to Gifford 25 This bewrayeth your shallownes. 1623Bingham Xenophon 8 What a shallownesse it would be, to require that of a Generall, which if he granted, his enterprise should be quite ouerthrowne. 1736Butler Anal. ii. vi. 317 There are other persons without this shallowness of temper, persons of deeper sense as to what is invisible and future. 1827Hare Guesses Ser. ii. (1873) 445 Some persons give one the notion of an abyss of shallowness. 1871B. Taylor Faust ii. i. (1875) II. 91, I was a fool: My shallowness I now must ridicule. |