as in shallowness
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Sick of superficialities?
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Usa Today, USA Today, 12 May 2025
This is a growing movement that ought to be raising eyebrows and forthrightly made visible to its superficiality and smacks of a Jedi-trick look-the-other-way hand-waving.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
Before long, the two become friends, moving beyond the silly superficialities of their business deal and helping each other realize some deeper truths.
—Noel Murray, New York Times, 1 May 2025
The song contrasts authentic love with the superficiality often found in relationships, urging the listener to let their guard down and accept something pure.
—Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2025
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Usa Today, USA Today, 12 May 2025
This is a growing movement that ought to be raising eyebrows and forthrightly made visible to its superficiality and smacks of a Jedi-trick look-the-other-way hand-waving.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
Before long, the two become friends, moving beyond the silly superficialities of their business deal and helping each other realize some deeper truths.
—Noel Murray, New York Times, 1 May 2025
The song contrasts authentic love with the superficiality often found in relationships, urging the listener to let their guard down and accept something pure.
—Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for superficiality
Noun
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The resulting film is equal parts shaggy, quixotic road movie and Malickian spiritual ponderance, gazing at the celestial patterns above while also too drunk on them to see the shallowness of their promise.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But my naivete and idiocy about what this was going to take was staggering to me just six months later.—
Scott Feinberg,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Aug. 2025
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“Superficiality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superficiality. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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