superficiality

CIDE DICTIONARY

superficiality, n. [Cf. F. superficialité.].

 The quality or state of being superficial; also, that which is superficial.  Sir T. Browne.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

superficiality

a little learning, absentmindedness, amateurism, apparent character, appearance, appearances, aridity, barrenness, big deal, bloodlessness, carelessness, characterlessness, colorlessness, cursoriness, deadness, dilettantism, dilettantship, dismalness, display, disregard, disregardfulness, distraction, dragginess, dreariness, dryness, dullness, dustiness, effeteness, emptiness, epidermis, etiolation, exteriority, exteriors, external appearance, externality, externalness, externals, extrinsicality, facade, flatness, flightiness, flimsiness, flippancy, fluffiness, foolishness, foreignness, frivolity, frivolousness, front, frothiness, futility, gaudiness, giddiness, glimmering, glimpse, gloss, half-learning, heaviness, heedlessness, hollowness, idleness, imperfect knowledge, inadvertence, inadvertency, inanity, inattention, inattentiveness, inconsideration, incuriosity, indifference, inexcitability, inobservance, insipidity, insipidness, jejunity, lack of depth, leadenness, levity, lifelessness, lightmindedness, lightness, lowness of spirit, manner, mere externals, mere scratch, meretriciousness, mien, negligence, no depth, no water, nonobservance, nugacity, obliviousness, openness, ostent, outerness, outward appearance, outward show, outwardness, paleness, pallor, pinprick, pointlessness, pokiness, ponderousness, public image, regardlessness, rind, sciolism, scratch, seeming, semi-learning, shallow-wittedness, shallowness, shoaliness, show, silliness, skin, slenderness, slight knowledge, slightness, slowness, smattering, smattering of ignorance, smattering of knowledge, solemnity, speciousness, spiritlessness, sterility, stiffness, stodginess, stuffiness, superficies, surface, surface appearance, surface show, surface-scratching, tastelessness, tediousness, thinness, thoughtlessness, triflingness, triteness, triviality, trivialness, unalertness, unawareness, unconsciousness, unheedfulness, unintentiveness, uninterestingness, unliveliness, unmindfulness, unobservance, unprofoundness, unprofundity, unwariness, unwatchfulness, vacuity, vague notion, vain show, vanity, vapidity, vapidness, veneer, volatility, woodenness