单词 | superficialness |
释义 | superficialnessn. 1. = superficiality n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > [noun] > superficiality superficiality1618 superficialness1624 superficialty1826 superficialism1830 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > superficial knowledge > [noun] > quality of shallowness1590 superficiality1618 superficialness1624 superficialism1830 the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [noun] > unsubstantiality or lack of substance > superficiality or hollowness superficiality1618 superficialness1624 outsideness1647 externality1684 floatiness1839 1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 118 The Superficialnesse of his silly and unlearned Adversarie. 1661 J. Gauden Considerations Liturgy 10 That rudenesse and unpreparednesse, that barrennesse and superficialnesse,..to which every private Minister is daily subject. 1711 J. Anderson Countrey-man's Let. to Curat 95 The Curat in the Answer manifestly Writes with a Superficialness that's below even Table-chat. 1745 J. Erskine Let. in Methodist Mag. (1797) Suppl. 38 Such an association of ideas, between them and our particular opinions and practices, which..narrowness of thought and superficialness..are so apt to lead even the strong into. 1827 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (1848) 2nd Ser. 60 Herder..owing to the superficialness of his metaphysical knowledge, had but vague conceptions with regard to the progress of mankind. 1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 5 Our America has a bad name for superficialness. 1902 A. B. Davidson Called of God x. 258 This sterner side usually showed itself, when Christ had to deal with sentiment, or propriety, or superficialness. 1921 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 93 89/2 This changing and contradictory tendency to a considerable extent reflects the superficialness and weakness of the argument and attitude of the anti-Japanese agitators. 1992 Econ. & Polit. Weekly 27 1053/2 The leading characters are all rootless urban figures possessing the smug confidence and superficialness characteristic of their background. 2. = superficiality n. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surface > [noun] > quality of relating to or being at superficiality1530 superficialness1731 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) II Superficialness, the being done on the outside. 1826 Lancet 25 Nov. 271/2 The description which he gave of the direction the missile took..led to the idea of the wound's superficialness. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 72 It [sc. mediastinitis] might be suspected from the intensity and superficialness of post-sternal pain. 1917 Ann. Ophthalmol. 26 572 The remarkable features of the case are the marked engorgement of the conjunctival vessels, the superficialness of the ulcer, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1624 |
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