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Shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something
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superficiality
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
What social psychologists call "the principle of superficiality versus depth" has pervaded Western culture since at least the time of Plato .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The property of being superficial, the tendency to judge by surface appearance.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling [syn: shallowness ] [ant: profundity ] shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something; "he ignored the wound because of its superficiality"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from superficial + -ity .
Usage examples of superficiality.
Captain Barker set to work to study the art in which Tristram was to be instructed, and, being by nature a hater of superficiality, determined to begin by acquainting himself with everything that had been written about the nature and habits of plants from the earliest ages to that present day.
She herself was maintaining her silk-blouse-and-pink-nails persona, just as she had for several other keyboardist auditions, but Devi did not appear to notice such superficialities.
The suspicion of a kind of journalistic superficiality to which such texts, and beyond them, the entire concept of testimony, are subject founders on this deepening polyvalence as the primary dynamic in putting pen to paper.
Unhappily, their followers, with their hopeless superficiality, flung medieval guilds and State interference into the same sack, making no distinction between a Versailles edict and a guild ordinance.
To him men present themselves individualised, and if they classify it is by some skin-deep accident of tint, some trick of the tongue, or habit of gesture, or such-like superficiality.
The singer knocked at the door and came in as if there were nothing remarkable about his visit, and without any introduction and superficialities he immediately entered into conversation with me.
How far removed delicious, exquisite Feiqa was from the motivated artifices, the lies and fabrications, the propaganda, the demeaning, sterile, unsatisfying, reductive, negative superficialities of antibiological roles, the prescriptions of an unnatural and pathological politics, the manipulative instrumentations of monsters and freaks.