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Definition of Hollowness

1. Noun. The state of being hollow: having an empty space within.

2. Noun. The property of having a sunken area.

3. Noun. The quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical.

Definition of Hollowness

1. n. State of being hollow.

Definition of Hollowness

1. Noun. The state or quality of being hollow. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hollowness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hollowness

hollow point hollow rail hollow rails hollow victories hollow victory hollow wall holloware hollowares hollowed hollowed out

hollower hollowest hollowing hollowing out hollowly hollowness (current term) hollownesses hollows hollows out hollowware

hollowwares holluschickie holluschickies holly holly-leaf cherry holly-leaved cherry holly-leaved oak holly-leaves barberry holly blue holly blues

Literary usage of Hollowness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Poetry as a Representative Art: An Essay in Comparative Aesthetics by George Lansing Raymond (1899)
"... Flowing Water, Rattling,, Effort—Pectoral Quality, representing Groaning, Depth, hollowness—Pure Quality, representing Thinness, Clearness, Sharpness, ..."

2. Fifty Years in the Making of Australian History by Henry Parkes (1892)
"... XII THE hollowness OF DEMOCRATIC PROFESSIONS—ABSENCE OF SETTLED OPINIONS IN WELL-TO-DO MEN—TYRANNICAL ACTIONS IN THE NAME OF LIBERTY—AUSTRALIAN ..."

3. Shakespeare Studies, and Essay on English Dictionaries by Thomas Spencer Baynes, Lewis Campbell (1896)
"In this sense it is applied not only to the larger umbelliferous plants, but also to the elder tree from the hollowness of its stem. ..."

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