superficiality

Other forms of superficiality

plural

superficialities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about superficiality

What does superficiality mean?

superficiality means "lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in superficiality?

superficiality has 7 syllables: su-per-fi-ci-a-li-ty. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for superficiality?

Close synonyms include shallowness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of superficiality?

The recorded antonyms are profundity.

Is superficiality a common word?

superficiality is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.