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 | ||