Superficiality

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Superficiality \Su`per*fi`ci*al"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F.
     superficialit['e].]
     The quality or state of being superficial; also, that which
     is superficial. --Sir T. Browne.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  superficiality
       n 1: lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling [syn: {shallowness}]
            [ant: {profundity}]
       2: shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of
          something; "he ignored the wound because of its
          superficiality"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  167 Moby Thesaurus words for "superficiality":
     a little learning, absentmindedness, amateurism,
     apparent character, appearance, appearances, aridity, barrenness,
     big deal, bloodlessness, carelessness, characterlessness,
     colorlessness, cursoriness, deadness, dilettantism, dilettantship,
     dismalness, display, disregard, disregardfulness, distraction,
     dragginess, dreariness, dryness, dullness, dustiness, effeteness,
     emptiness, epidermis, etiolation, exteriority, exteriors,
     external appearance, externality, externalness, externals,
     extrinsicality, facade, flatness, flightiness, flimsiness,
     flippancy, fluffiness, foolishness, foreignness, frivolity,
     frivolousness, front, frothiness, futility, gaudiness, giddiness,
     glimmering, glimpse, gloss, half-learning, heaviness, heedlessness,
     hollowness, idleness, imperfect knowledge, inadvertence,
     inadvertency, inanity, inattention, inattentiveness,
     inconsideration, incuriosity, indifference, inexcitability,
     inobservance, insipidity, insipidness, jejunity, lack of depth,
     leadenness, levity, lifelessness, lightmindedness, lightness,
     lowness of spirit, manner, mere externals, mere scratch,
     meretriciousness, mien, negligence, no depth, no water,
     nonobservance, nugacity, obliviousness, openness, ostent,
     outerness, outward appearance, outward show, outwardness, paleness,
     pallor, pinprick, pointlessness, pokiness, ponderousness,
     public image, regardlessness, rind, sciolism, scratch, seeming,
     semi-learning, shallow-wittedness, shallowness, shoaliness, show,
     silliness, skin, slenderness, slight knowledge, slightness,
     slowness, smattering, smattering of ignorance,
     smattering of knowledge, solemnity, speciousness, spiritlessness,
     sterility, stiffness, stodginess, stuffiness, superficies, surface,
     surface appearance, surface show, surface-scratching,
     tastelessness, tediousness, thinness, thoughtlessness,
     triflingness, triteness, triviality, trivialness, unalertness,
     unawareness, unconsciousness, unheedfulness, unintentiveness,
     uninterestingness, unliveliness, unmindfulness, unobservance,
     unprofoundness, unprofundity, unwariness, unwatchfulness, vacuity,
     vague notion, vain show, vanity, vapidity, vapidness, veneer,
     volatility, woodenness