superficiality
noun
the fact or quality of being at or near, or relating to, the surface.
superficialness
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a variation of
superficiality.
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a word derived from
superficial.
superficialadjectivebeing at, on, or near the surface.
Example Sentences
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There is a level of superficialness to the friendliness.
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2019
He combines the superficialness that the urban demographic needs with conscious rhymes for the kids with backpacks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, as a child, I understood none of this and allowed empty, hollow superficialness to impress me tremendously, like any other more or less grown-up child.
From My Life and My Efforts by Gunther Olesch
It is natural enough, too, in the working-out process, that its superficialness becomes evident.
From Sword and crozier, drama in five acts by Lee Milton Hollander
I doubt the superficialness of the thoughts: at all events, this is not a character of the time, though it may be of the writer; for this would affect art more even than literature.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by John Ruskin
