superficiality Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling
    shallowness.
  2. noun shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something
    • he ignored the wound because of its superficiality

WordNet

Su`per*fi`ci*al"i*ty noun
Etymology
Cf. F. superficialité.
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being superficial; also, that which is superficial. Sir T. Browne.

Webster 1913