superficies
Americannoun
plural
superficies-
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 vol. iv. we have the memoir Allgemeine Aufl�sung, on the graphical representation of one surface upon another, and the Disquisitiones generales circa superficies curvas.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
He is the mask without the face, and there isn't in his total superficies a tiny point of vantage for the newspaper to flap his wings on.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry
Has it swept across Greenland—that vast superficies partly enveloped in glacier, partly in snow?
From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by McClintock, Francis Leopold
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