superficies

1. 1.

   the purely external aspect of a thing; superficial appearance

   “the audience was held by the substance of the play rather than by the superficies of the production”

   Broaderappearance

   plural

2. 2.

   outer surface of an area or a body

   Broadersurface

Other forms of superficies

plural

superficieses·

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 superficies

What does superficies mean?

superficies means "the purely external aspect of a thing; superficial appearance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in superficies?

superficies has 4 syllables: su-per-fi-cies. The stress falls on "per".

Is superficies a common word?

superficies is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.