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Definitions: Hollowness |
HollownessNoun1. The state of being hollow: having an empty space within. 2. The property of having a sunken area. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hollowness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Post & Telecom | A distortion in telephony caused by double reflected signals and subjectively perceived as a hollow sound. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Antonym: solidity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concavity | Noun: concavity, depression, dip; hollow, hollowness; indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus, alveolus, lacuna; excavation, strip mine; trough; (furrow); honeycomb. |
Falsehood | Lip homage, lip service; mouth honor; hollowness; mere show, mere outside; duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug; jesuitism, jesuitry; pharisaism; Machiavelism, "organized hypocrisy"; crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery; charlatanism, charlatanry; gammon; bun-kum, bumcombe, flam; bam, flimflam, cajolery, flattery; Judas kiss; perfidy; (bad faith); il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti. |
Unsubstantiality | Hollowness, blank; void; (absence). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Hollowness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hollowness" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 35 | 58,339 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "hollowness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | التجويف, العمق (deepness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | profondeur, cavité (hollow, honeycomb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hohlheit (emptiness, shallowness, vanity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חלוליות (porosity), ביבות (emptiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | üresség (blankness, cavity, emptiness, platitude, vacancy, vacuity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | timbro cavernoso, falsit (deceit, deceitfulness, falsehood, falseness, falsity, humbug, insincerity, lie, untruth), cavit (alcove, body cavity, bug hole, cave, cavern, cavity, cavity resonator, chamber, form, hole, hollow, impression, microwave resource cavity, mould form, mould impression, pit, pocket, pocket recess, recess, resonant cavity, resonant chamber, resonant element, rhumbatron, socket, step, tuned cavity, vugh, waveguide resonator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | がらがら蛇 (deserted, emptiness, empty, garbage, jumble, odds and ends, pickled ginger, rattlesnake, sliced shouga prepared in vinegar served with sushi, to be deserted, to be empty, void). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | がら"どう (emptiness, void). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | laggid (languor, looseness, slackness), folmid (bareness, blank, blankness, emptiness, flatness, inanity, shallowness, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, void useless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ollownesshay scobiturã (dimple, excavation, flute, groove, hole, hollow, lug, trough), perfidie (cattiness, devilry, falsity, foulness, perfidiousness, perfidy, subtlety, treachery), gol (abyss, bald, bare, bare-bodied, barren, blank, blankness, desert, deserted, empty, gap, genuine, hollow, inanity, leafless, naked, nakedly, nude, out at, shallow, stripped, uncovered, vacancy, vacuum, void, waste, windy), falsitate (artfulness, cunning, deceitfulness, depth, double dealing, duplicity, fallacy, falsehood, falseness, falsity, insincerity, mendacity, untruth), cavitate (cave, cavity, delve, dimple, hole, hollow, recess, socket). (various references) sahtelik (artificiality, disguise, falsehood, falseness, falsity, spuriousness, untruth), oyukluk, boğukluk (deepness, gruffness, huskiness), boşluk (abysm, abyss, antrum, backlash, blank, blankness, cavity, chamber, chasm, clear, clearance, daylight, desideratum, emptiness, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, idleness, inanition, Lacuna, nothingness, nullity, separation, sinus, slack, slackness, space, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, voidness), açlık (dearth, famine, hunger, starvation), çukurluk (concavity). (various references) sự trũng v o sự rỗng tuếch sự giả dối, sự rỗng sự lõm sâu, sự không th nh thật. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | cavitas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hollowness": hollownesses. (additional references) | |
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"Hollowness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hollowen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "hollowness" (pronounced 'Hol"low*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-l-l-n-o-o-s-s-w" | |
-2 letters: snowshoe, woollens. | |
-3 letters: holloes, hollows, loosens, lowness, swollen, woolens, woollen, wooshes. | |
-4 letters: hellos, hollos, hollow, hosels, lesson, loosen, looses, losels, nooses, noshes, shells, sheols, shools, snells, snools, solons, sowens, swells, swoons, swoosh, wholes, woolen. | |
-5 letters: enols, enows, hello, hells, helos, holes, hollo, hones, hosel, hosen, hoses, howes, howls, lenos, loess, loons, loose, losel, loses. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-l-l-n-o-o-s-s-w" | |
+2 letters: hollownesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 6F 6C 6C 6F 77 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... --- .-.. .-.. --- .--. -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101111 01101100 01101100 01101111 01110111 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H o l l o w n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 006F 006C 006C 006F 0077 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42817878818980718585 |
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