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Hollowness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. the state or quality of being hollow

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. State of being hollow.

n. Insincerity; unsoundness; treachery.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state of being hollow; cavity; depression of surface; excavation.

n. Emptiness; insincerity; deceitfulness; treachery.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical

n. the state of being hollow: having an empty space within

n. the property of having a sunken area

Word Usage

""[E] ssentially, The Good German is a parallel universe version of Casablanca, which both makes the film interesting and ultimately lends it a certain hollowness," writes Drew Morton at Dr Mabuse's Kaleido-Scope."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

emptiness concavity concaveness

Cross Reference

emptiness insincerity falsity

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

insincerity unsoundness treachery

Verb Stem

hollow

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

insincerity falseness worthlessness unreality artificiality