depthlessness
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9.3
- noun
- /ˈdɛpθləsnəs/
- His writing often suffers from a depthlessness that fails to engage the reader's emotions.
Examples
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Here again we have the association of postmodernism with the dissolution of the humanistic subject, a signifier of the depthlessness that Jameson famously identified as the waning of affect in postmodern culture.
Academic text (2017) -
Recalling Barthes' reprehensible physiognomic diagnosis of the depthlessness of Japanese culture from the facial features of Japanese people, Sakabe's omote was a depthless surface behind which lies nothing.
Academic text (2018) -
A depthlessness of signs informs this cultural logic.
Academic text (2013) -
The depthlessness of the pool made it unsafe for diving.
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The depthlessness of their conversation left me feeling unfulfilled and bored.
Synonyms
148
6.5
A very empty space or feeling that is hard to fill
43
5.3
A feeling that life has no meaning
3
4.3
A feeling of emptiness with no thoughts or emotion
2
7.0
A state of having no meaning or purpose
1
7.7
A feeling of cold emptiness and lack of human warmth
1
5.3
An empty space inside a thing, like a tree trunk or cheek
1
9.2
A state of being empty of meaning and thought
1
4.6
Little depth in a place, for example water that is not deep
1
6.0
Not giving much detail or careful thought
1
8.1
A feeling of emptiness after something important ends
Antonyms
How Deep
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Depthlessness is made from depth, which comes from deep meaning 'far down' or 'serious', plus -less meaning 'without' and -ness to make a thing. So, depthlessness means 'without depth', whether a place is physically shallow or a idea or feeling is not deep or serious.