superficies
Americannoun
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the surface, outer face, or outside of a thing.
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the outward appearance, especially as distinguished from the inner nature.
noun
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a surface or outer face
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the outward form of a thing
Etymology
Origin of superficies
1520–30; < Latin superficiēs, equivalent to super- super- + -ficiēs, combining form of faciēs face
Example Sentences
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He’s the king of superficies: you fall in love with his Puppy immediately, involuntarily, unironically.
From The Guardian • Jul. 3, 2014
“You cannot stop the superficies of objects from evaporation,” he said.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
In other insects the imaginal disks are less completely disconnected from the superficies of the larval hypodermis, and may indeed be merely patches thereof.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
Their superficies is equal to about an acre and a half.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir
It is simply the same world surveyed from an opposite point of view—unaltered, uninverted, but seen in the superficies, presented in the concrete.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
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