superficiality

English

Etymology

From superficial +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsuː.pə.fɪʃ.iˈæl.ɪ.ti/

Noun

superficiality (countable and uncountable, plural superficialities)

1. The property of being superficial, the tendency to judge by surface appearance.
   • 1980 August 30, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 14:

     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.

Translations

property of being superficial

Arabic: سَطْحِيَّة m (saṭḥiyya) Bulgarian: повърхностност (bg) f (povǎrhnostnost) Catalan: superficialitat f Dutch: oppervlakkigheid (nl) f Finnish: pinnallisuus (fi) French: please add this translation if you can Galician: superficialidade (gl) f Georgian: ზედაპირულობა (zedaṗiruloba) German: Oberflächlichkeit (de) f Hindi: उथलापन m (uthlāpan), छिछलापन m (chichlāpan) Hungarian: felszínesség (hu) Italian: superficialità (it) f Macedonian: по́вршност f (póvršnost) Mongolian: өнгөц байдал (öngöc bajdal) Portuguese: superficialidade (pt) f Romanian: superficialitate (ro) Russian: пове́рхностность (ru) f (povérxnostnostʹ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: по̀вршно̄ст f Roman: pòvršnōst (sh) f Spanish: superficialidad (es) f Ukrainian: поверхо́вість f (poverxóvistʹ), поверхо́вність f (poverxóvnistʹ)