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/lˈəʊnəs/
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NOUN
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a low or small degree of any quality (amount or force or temperature etc.)
he took advantage of the lowness of interest rates - a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation
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a feeling of low spirits
he felt responsible for her lowness of spirits -
the quality of being low; lacking height
he was suddenly aware of the lowness of the ceiling
How To Use lowness In A Sentence
- Mr Vermes, who was close to that research effort, finds good reason to criticise it for slowness and carelessness—but no ground to assert a conspiracy.
- The shallowness of the space is just one of the elements that form parts of a larger, more complex content.
- The physical part made up for the shallowness of verbal communication.
- Wenger, however, prefers to invest in promise rather than experience, and at this juncture the consequence of a persistent collective callowness is that while his club may have a waiting list of 40,000 for their season tickets, the empty seats in the middle and upper tiers last night spoke of the dissatisfaction of those among their supporters who do not subscribe to the doctrine of keeping the faith through thick and thin. Arsenal fizzle out after early promise – just like last season | Richard Williams
- I stand here today humbled works on antithesis, a putting of terms into opposition with each other, whereby stand, apart from connoting the witness stand and stealing some of its sincerity, erects an uprightness to contrast with the lowness of humbled, from the Latin humus, meaning earth. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
- There is a shallowness to the culture there that can make you question the authenticity of anything coming out of the place.
- At the Kennedy Center, during "Le Corsaire" 's opening marketplace scene, we saw a stageful of distinct characters, all telling their individual "stories" with wit, finesse and flair, but never play-acting hollowness. Bolshoi Embraces the Pre-Soviet Past
- Everything is done with exaggerated slowness, which seems a rather cheap way of adding profundity to some fairly simplistic ideas about war not being a very good thing.
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- He looks the age and although his character still appears fit, his mannerisms have just a slight suggestion of slowness to them.