English noun: superficiality | |||
1. | superficiality (attribute) lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling | ||
Synonyms | shallowness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | depth | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | glibness, sciolism, slickness | ||
Antonyms | profundity, profoundness | ||
2. | superficiality (attribute) shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something | ||
Samples | He ignored the wound because of its superficiality. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | shallowness | ||