noun. The character of being superficial, in any (literal or figurative) sense; want of depth or thoroughness; shallowness.

noun. That which is superficial or shallow, in any (literal or figurative) sense; a superficial person or thing.

noun. The quality or state of being superficial; also, that which is superficial.

noun. The property of being superficial, the tendency to judge by surface appearance.

noun. lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling

noun. shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something

"The superficiality is downright dangerous, I think, in glossing over the fact that you can suppress theistic religion and end up with worse racism — c.f. anti-semitism in Soviet Russia — because atheistic ideologies can function in exactly the same way to create exactly the same type of “bad thinking”."

shallowness  

amateurishness  artificiality  faithlessness  falsity  frivolity  

a little learning  absentmindedness  amateurism  apparent character  appearance