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Superficies

//ˌsuː.pəˈfɪʃ.i.iːz// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A two-dimensional magnitude that has length and breadth; especially such a surface that forms the boundary of a solid.; The area of a two-dimensional surface.
  2. 2
    outer surface of an area or a body wordnet
  3. 3
    A two-dimensional magnitude that has length and breadth; especially such a surface that forms the boundary of a solid.; The visible, external surface of a body.

    "The Superficies was compoſed of ſeveral bits of Wood, about the bigneſs of a Dye, but ſome larger than others."

  4. 4
    the purely external aspect of a thing; superficial appearance wordnet
  5. 5
    The surface (of something immaterial, especially of the mind or soul).

    "An immense metropolis, like London, is calculated to make men selfish and uninteresting. … They present but the cold superficies of character—its rich and genial qualities have no time to be warmed into a flow."

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  1. 6
    A building intimately associated with the land on which it is built.

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin superficiēs (“top, surface”), from super- (“above, over”) + faciēs (“form, configuration, shape”). Doublet of surface.

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