superficiality
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- profundity antonym
- superficial derivation
- shallow derivation
Sense 2 noun
shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something
he ignored the wound because of its superficiality
Types & categories
- shallowness hypernym
Related & opposite
- superficial derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | profundity |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | superficial |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | shallow |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | depth |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | glibness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sciolism |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | superficial |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | shallowness |