SUPERFICIALITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling

Synonyms:

shallowness; superficiality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("superficiality" is a kind of...):

depth (degree of psychological or intellectual profundity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "superficiality"):

glibness; slickness (a kind of fluent easy superficiality)

sciolism (pretentious superficiality of knowledge)

Antonym:

profundity (intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc)

Derivation:

superficial (concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually)

Meaning:

Shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something

Example:

he ignored the wound because of its superficiality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("superficiality" is a kind of...):

shallowness (the quality of lacking physical depth)

Derivation:

superficial (of, affecting, or being on or near the surface)