Superficiality
noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 The property of being superficial, the tendency to judge by surface appearance. countable, uncountable
"Seeks companion with similar invisible handicap or circumstance which forced early awareness of mortality and is consequently very serious about life and has little time for superficiality."
- 2 lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling wordnet
- 3 shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something wordnet
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More examples"As far as I understand despite my limited knowledge, here in Venezuela we must adapt to the prevailing mentality and social order. Therefore, an individual must live among opportunism, poverty, manipulation and superficiality. It might be a very characteristic Latino idiosyncrasy to behave as in the book "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel García Márquez when it comes to dealing with delicate situations. Everybody knows what's happening, but nobody raises his voice and even if somebody did, nobody would support him. Only enlightenment through education could end the ignorance that is a scourge on our people, from which many other problems arise. However, it's unlikely to expect a government to propose to spread values that threaten its own interests, because it's better for them to keep society ignorant in order to manipulate it with ease."
Etymology
From superficial + -ity.
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