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superficiality has 1 distinct synonym spread across 1 of its 2 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is profundity.
lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for superficiality come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something
“he ignored the wound because of its superficiality”