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There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but there is also a dark side. It's a difficult place if you don't know people, and if you can't drive, you will find it lonely. You have to create your own bubble.
Amanda Eliasch

Meaning of "superficiality" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SUPERFICIALITY

superficiality  [ˌsuːpəfɪʃɪˈælətɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUPERFICIALITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Superficiality is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SUPERFICIALITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Superficiality

What social psychologists call “The principle of superficiality versus depth” has pervaded Western culture since at least the time of Plato.

Definition of superficiality in the English dictionary

The definition of superficiality in the dictionary is the quality of not being characterized by or associated with emotional or intellectual depth, or with anything serious or important; shallowness. Other definition of superficiality is the quality of including only the simplest and most obvious aspects of sth, and not those aspects which require more effort to deal with or understand; lack of depth.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUPERFICIALITY


ambisexuality
ˌæmbɪˌsɛkʃʊˈælətɪ
antisexuality
ˌæntɪˌsɛkʃʊˈælətɪ
ephemerality
ɪˌfemərˈælətɪ
ethereality
ɪˌθɪərɪˈælətɪ
factuality
ˌfæktʃʊˈælətɪ
hypersexuality
ˌhaɪpəˌsɛksjʊˈælətɪ
intersexuality
ˌɪntəˌsɛkʃʊˈælətɪ
notionality
ˌnəʊʃənˈælətɪ
nuptiality
ˌnʌpʃɪˈælətɪ
officiality
əˌfɪʃɪˈælətɪ
optionality
ˌɒpʃəˈnælətɪ
osmolality
ˌɒzməʊˈlælətɪ
pansexuality
pænˌsekʃʊˈælətɪ
parasexuality
pærəˌsɛkʃʊˈælətɪ
psychosexuality
ˌsaɪkəʊˌsɛksjʊˈælətɪ
seasonality
ˌsiːzənælətɪ
subspeciality
ˌsʌbspɛʃɪˈælətɪ
supersexuality
ˌsuːpərˌsekʃʊˈælətɪ
triaxiality
traɪˌæksɪˈælətɪ
unisexuality
ˌjuːnɪˌsɛkʃʊˈælətɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUPERFICIALITY

superfarm
superfast
superfatted
superfecta
superfecundation
superfemale
superfetate
superfetation
superficial
superficialise
superficialize
superficially
superficialness
superficies
superfine
superfineness
superfirm
superfit
superfix
superflack

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUPERFICIALITY

ability
air quality
augmented reality
confidentiality
equality
functionality
homosexuality
hospitality
in reality
inequality
locality
mortality
municipality
nationality
originality
personality
quality
reality
sexuality
speciality
spirituality

Synonyms and antonyms of superficiality in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SUPERFICIALITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «superficiality» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of superficiality

Translation of «superficiality» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SUPERFICIALITY

Find out the translation of superficiality to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of superficiality from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «superficiality» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

肤浅
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

superficialidad
570 millions of speakers

English

superficiality
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अल्पज्ञता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سطحية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

поверхностность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

superficialidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বহিরঙ্গ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

caractère superficiel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Superficiality
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Oberflächlichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

浅薄
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

수박
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Superficiality
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự không sâu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மேம்போக்குத்தனத்தை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वरवरचा दर्जा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yüzeysellik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

superficialità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

powierzchowność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

поверховість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

superficialitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επιπολαιότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oppervlakkigheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ytlighet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overfladiskhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of superficiality

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUPERFICIALITY»

The term «superficiality» is quite widely used and occupies the 52.839 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SUPERFICIALITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «superficiality» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «superficiality» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about superficiality

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10 QUOTES WITH «SUPERFICIALITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word superficiality.
1
Penn Badgley
The 'Gossip Girl' idea and ideologies, like, they sort of encourage this certain kind of, like, materialism and superficiality that isn't, I would say, the best thing in the world.
2
Gwendoline Christie
I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.
3
Paulo Coelho
Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.
4
Kyan Douglas
The externals are important but I'm not interested in superficiality.
5
Amanda Eliasch
There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but there is also a dark side. It's a difficult place if you don't know people, and if you can't drive, you will find it lonely. You have to create your own bubble.
6
Gustav Mahler
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
7
Patricia Marx
I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
8
Azar Nafisi
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.
9
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
10
Radhanath Swami
Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUPERFICIALITY»

Discover the use of superficiality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to superficiality and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Beyond Superficiality With God
Beyond Superficiality shows how we arrive at artificial explanations of reality when we ignore God, and how that results in all kinds of false ideas.Is Macro-Evolution really scientific?
Glen Beyeler, 2007
2
Transformations: Identity Construction in Contemporary Culture
But they gave comfort. They helped suggest that the upstart fashion that so troubled monarchs and marketplaces was perhaps intellectually containable, at least. The attempt to dismiss fashion for its superficiality was haunted by circularities.
Grant David McCracken, 2008
3
Sophistry and Twentieth-century Art
We can now explain what constitutes a bastion of superficiality. It is a painting or a sculpture that masquerades as a work of art but unconceals no truth and is not beautiful; it is a painting or a sculpture that masquerades as a work of art and is ...
Ḥayim Gordon, Rivca Gordon, 2002
4
Moral Development and Reality: Beyond the Theories of ...
Early Childhood Superficiality Because preschoolers generally have difficulty keeping in mind multiple sources of information, their moral judgment and, more generally, their social and nonsocial cognition tend to be superficial. Impressive ...
John C. Gibbs, 2003
5
Educating the Engineer for the 21st Century
SUPERFICIALITY. AND. OVERSPECIALIZATION. Abstract. The need for cross disciplinary training for future engineers is discussed. The inadequacy of the classical classification of scientific disciplines and of the standard ways of teaching is ...
D. Weichert, B. Rauhut, R. Schmidt, 2001
6
Nietzsche's Philosophy of Art
Here, profound superficiality is not a merely temporary solution for those en route to the health of Ubermenschlichkeit but rather the solution for human beings. In the final months of his thought about art and its relation to life Nietzsche offers us  ...
Julian Young, 1994
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The Comparative Perspective on Literature: Approaches to ...
[21]. On. the. Superficiality. of. Women. SUSAN. NOAKES. This essay is meant to be a contribution to a semiotically informed feminist hermeneutics. I take semiotics to be an inquiry into the implication of the fact that signs (for example, words or ...
Clayton Koelb, Susan Noakes, 1988
8
Nietzsche as Postmodernist: Essays Pro and Contra
Significantly, this superficiality that Nietzsche recommends postdates commitment to the scientific quest for knowledge. In this respect, Nietzsche's concern with appearances differs markedly from that of Baudrillard, who proposes that we play ...
Clayton Koelb, 1990
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Homiletic Review: An International Magazine of Religion, ...
This simple depth or superficiality of manhood is charac- SECTION. teristic. We look at one man, and say his heart and life are so thin. The soil of his manhood has just been scratched by the plow and harrow of life's experience. The stream of ...
‎1889
10
The Homiletic Review
This simple depth or superficiality of manhood is charac- SECTION. teristic. We look at one man, and say his heart and life are so thin. The soil of his manhood has just been scratched by the plow and harrow of life's experience. The stream of ...
‎1889

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUPERFICIALITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term superficiality is used in the context of the following news items.
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Charles Arlinghaus: Steve Forbes is the antidote to modern political …
Though Forbes ran for office himself, he was and continues to be an antidote to the superficiality gradually infecting the body politic. He instead works not to ... «The Union Leader, Jun 15»
2
The scourge of superficiality
Joshua Charles is the No. 1 New York Times best-selling co-author (with Glenn Beck) of "The Original Argument: The Federalists' Case for the Constitution, ... «WND.com, Apr 15»
3
Brilliant Use of X-Rays Shows the Superficiality of Prejudice (Video).
The subgenre of gay-affirming ads and PSAs has grown rapidly in recent years, with entries from companies like Honey Maid taking the Internet by storm. «Slate Magazine, Mar 15»
4
The Superficiality of Online Dating Apps
Online dating apps appear to have been stripped down peoples' most superficial qualities. Look at Tinder for example. The premise is simple-- swipe left if you ... «Huffington Post, Feb 15»
5
Pass Or Play? Jazmine Sullivan Talks Superficiality In New Song …
If you ask me, Jazmine Sullivan's new album Reality Show cannot come fast enough. With the release of every single, I'm getting more and more anxious. «Madame Noire, Dec 14»
6
Response to Ebola 'crisis' in US highlights superficiality problem
American society is underperforming because this is a superficial way to act. Crisis leadership is not leadership at all. Crisis obsessions distract citizens from ... «UT The Daily Texan, Oct 14»
7
Superficiality reigns in Fiddlehead Theatre Company's 'Aida'
Though there are a few laudable performances, it's an erratic production that does little to conceal the fundamental superficiality and mediocrity of this musical ... «Boston Globe, Oct 14»
8
Quantum Gravity Expert Says “Philosophical Superficiality” Has …
As readers of this blog know, late last spring I spoke at a cool conference in England called How the Light Gets In, where I hung out with all kinds of professional ... «Scientific American, Aug 14»
9
Le Chef Illuminates the Superficiality of the Restaurant Biz
But Daniel Cohen's Le Chef does little more than illuminate the superficiality of the restaurant business. Jacky (Michaël Youn) is an upstart chef who can't hold ... «Village Voice, Jun 14»
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How Superficiality Will Kill Your Career
If your career is unhappy and leaving you cold, you must begin to operate from a deeper understanding of yourself, rather than pursuing empty, superficial tactics ... «Forbes, Jun 14»

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