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SUPERFICIALITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling
Synonyms:
shallowness; superficiality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("superficiality" is a kind of...):
depth (degree of psychological or intellectual profundity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "superficiality"):
glibness; slickness (a kind of fluent easy superficiality)
sciolism (pretentious superficiality of knowledge)
Antonym:
profundity (intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc)
Derivation:
superficial (concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something
Example:
he ignored the wound because of its superficiality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("superficiality" is a kind of...):
shallowness (the quality of lacking physical depth)
Derivation:
superficial (of, affecting, or being on or near the surface)
