Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who attends to anything superficially; one of superficial attainments; a sciolist; a smatterer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who attends to anything superficially; a superficial or shallow person; a sciolist; a smatterer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
superficial orshallow person; asciolist .
Etymologies
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superficial + -ist
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Examples
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There you get the superficial and erroneous view of the way music helps the community, treating it merely as a superficialist, as a pleasant amusement, and ignoring altogether the higher and lasting effects.
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