superficies
Americannoun
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superficies
plural
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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
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Etymology
Origin of superficies
1520–30; < Latin superficiēs, equivalent to super- super- + -ficiēs, combining form of faciēs face
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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
Their superficies is equal to about an acre and a half.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Sir Walter Armstrong
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 John Addington Symonds
They occupy very little ground, never more than sixty square feet of superficies.
From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Thomasina Ross
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