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
He began his career with finished and studied pictures, which, I believe, never paid him—he now prostitutes his fine talent to the superficialness of public taste, and blots his way to emolument and oblivion.
From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by John Ruskin
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
Which word carries a natural implication of superficialness?
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
