shallowness
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- noun
- /ˈʃælənəs/
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superficialidad
- In an emergency room, for instance, many of these features might be ignored in favor of other characteristics that would lead to a diagnostic classification: consciousness, pupil dilation, shallowness of breath, and coherence of speech, to name a few.
Examples
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Even the passing of an occasional breeze raises its shallowness.
Academic text (1999) -
Similarly, the shallowness of the shelf waters and, in many places, their clarity allowed fishing gear to be seen from vessel decks without the necessity and expense of depth sounders.
Academic text (1997) -
And then same thing with reducing the angle or shallowness of that ramp.
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The river appeared knee-deep, but such shallowness was an illusion.
Fiction book (1996) -
And concerned about this lack of breath, this, this shallowness that we've got in in the market, as well as the fact that, hey, we've had retracements.
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The coastal domain is a product of direct mixing of freshwater runoff and saline water, and has a tendency toward homogeneity due to the shallowness of the domain and wind and strong tidal mixing.
Academic text (1992) -
The shallowness of the pond made it easy for children to play safely in the water.
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The engineer noted the shallowness of the excavation, which raised safety concerns.
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During the summer, the shallowness of the creek allowed us to walk across without swimming.
Synonyms
A quality of being shallow in a place or in meaning and feeling
Antonyms
How Deep
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Morphology
Etymology
Shallowness comes from shallow + -ness, where shallow means 'not deep' and -ness shows a 'quality'. Think of water you can stand in; shallowness is the 'quality of being not deep'.