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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

surfacely en · ADV

Etymology

From surface + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, qualifier:nonstandard or non-native speakers' English) On the surface; superficially.
    • Each of these positions can be felt deeply or surfacely. 2002, A. K. Mehta, Acupuncture for Everyone, page 33:
    • Surfacely, the Forms-as-thoughts possibility is turning out, it would appear, a “solution” to this first infinite regress difficulty only by throwing the argument into an even more insidious and absurd infinite regress. 2011, John W. McGinley, The Seventh Chamber, page 125: