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superficiality

DEFINITIONS OF: superficiality

1

n lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling

Synonyms:
shallowness
Antonyms:
profoundness, profundity
intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc
Types:
glibness, slickness
a kind of fluent easy superficiality
sciolism
pretentious superficiality of knowledge
Type of:
depth
degree of psychological or intellectual profundity

n shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something

“he ignored the wound because of its superficiality”
Type of:
shallowness
the quality of lacking physical depth
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