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superficiality|s(j)uːpəfɪʃɪˈælɪtɪ|
[f. superficial + -ity. Cf. F. superficialité, It. -alità, etc.]
1. The quality of pertaining to, or being situated in or near, the surface.
1530Palsgr. 278/2 Superficialyte, superficialité. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. x. 322 By which Salts the colours of bodies are sensibly qualified, and receive degrees of lustre or obscurity, superficiality or profundity. 1869Spencer Princ. Psychol. (1870) I. 166 The relative superficiality or centrality of these nerves.
†2. Superficial area or content. Obs. rare.
1690Leybourn Curs. Math. 327 The Dodecaedron is larger than all the other together..in..Superficiality. 1811Self Instructor 150 It is necessary to know how to find the superficiality [of solid bodies].
3. Lack of depth, thoroughness, or solidity; shallowness of learning, character, etc. Also, an instance of this.
1661H. D. Disc. Liturgies 34 The charge of serving God in Prayer with rudeness, unpreparedness, barrenness, superficiality. 1677Gilpin Dæmonol. (1867) 4 A formal superficiality of religion. 1736Bolingbroke Patriot. (1749) 58 And hence all that superficiality in speaking, for want of information. 1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist, She despised superficiality, and looked deeper than the colours of things. 1840Carlyle Heroes vi. (1858) 359 The strong daring man..has set all manner of Formulas and logical superficialities against him. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt xxiv, Talkers whose noisy superficiality cost them nothing. 1893Liddon, etc. Pusey I. xi. 254 The superficiality so common a hundred years ago in religion as in other matters. |