Difference between Superficial and Trivial

SUPERFICIAL vs TRIVIAL: NOUN

One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
A coefficient or other quantity not containing the quantities of the set considered.
One of the three liberal arts which constitute the trivium.

At face value.
Of or pertaining to the surface.
Being near the surface.
Two-dimensional; drawn on a flat surface.
Reaching or comprehending only what is obvious or apparent; not deep or profound; shallow; -- said especially in respect to study, learning, and the like.
Of or pertaining to the superficies, or surface; lying on the surface; shallow; not deep.
Not extensive or important; minor or insignificant.
Apparent rather than actual or substantial.
Concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; shallow.
Of, affecting, or being on or near the surface.
Involving a surface only
Relating to a surface
Of little substance or significance
Shallow, lacking substance.
Being or affecting or concerned with a surface; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually

Concerned with trivialities
(informal terms) small and of little importance
(informal) small and of little importance
Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
Pertaining to the trivium.
Self-evident.
Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
Concerned with or involving trivia.
Common, ordinary.
The specific name.
Of or pertaining to the trivium.
Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry.
Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar.
Obvious and dull
Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case; self-evident.
Of, relating to, or being the solution of an equation in which every variable is equal to zero.
Concerned with or involving unimportant matters; superficial.
Of little significance or value.
Not large enough to consider or notice
Of little substance or significance
Found anywhere; common.

Slight, smattering, shallow.
Synonyms External, exterior, outer.
Of persons or their mental states or acts, comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; not deep or profound; not thorough.
Lying in or on, or pertaining to, the superficies or surface; not penetrating below the surface, literally or figuratively; being only on the surface; not reaching to the interior or essence; shallow: as, a superficial color; a superficial resemblance.
Occurring on or near the surface of the skin
Hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
In anatomy, not deep-seated or profound; lying on the surface of some part, or near but not on the surface of the whole body; subcutaneous; cutaneous: specifically said of various tissues and structures.

In zoology and botany: Common; popular; vernacular; not technical: noting the popular or familiar names of animals or plants, as distinguished from the technical New Latin names.
Specific; not generic: noting what used to be called the nomen triviale—that is, the second or specific term in the binomial technical name of an animal or a plant, such terms being often adopted or adapted from a popular name or epithet.
In echinoderms, specifically, of or pertaining to the trivium: as, the trivial (anterior) ambulacra of a sea-urchin.
Occupying one's self with trifles; trifling.
Trifling; insignificant; of little worth or importance; paltry.
Such as may be found everywhere; commonplace; ordinary; vulgar.
Of or pertaining to the trivium, or the first three liberal arts—grammar, rhetoric, and logic; hence, initiatory; rudimentary.

Dilettanteish, Looking, Sounding, Surface, Apparent, Seeming, Ostensible, Dilettante, Dilettantish, Shallow, Insignificant, Facile, Unimportant, Trivial, Glib

Fiddling, Niggling, Ordinary, Inconsiderable, Commonplace, Piffling, Superficial, Piddling, Frivolous, Petty, Footling, Picayune, Banal, Insignificant, Unimportant

Dilettanteish, Looking, Sounding, Surface, Apparent, Seeming, Ostensible, Dilettante, Dilettantish, Shallow, Insignificant, Facile, Unimportant, Trivial, Glib

Fiddling, Niggling, Ordinary, Inconsiderable, Commonplace, Piffling, Superficial, Piddling, Frivolous, Petty, Footling, Picayune, Banal, Insignificant, Unimportant

US feasibility is intermediate in superficial leg muscles.
BCG, in patients with recurrent superficial bladder cancer.
Formulas with mild abrasives temporarily remove superficial stains.
This app covers the superficial landmarks, superficial and deep muscles, bones, and organs.
Superficial thrombophlebitis consists of thrombosis and inflammation of one or more superficial veins.
Patients become symptomatic mostly from superficial venous hypertension, as the superficial veins lack muscular support.
May be associated with chronic follicular conjunctivitis, superficial pannus, and superficial punctate keratitis.
Superficial It can sometimes be superficial infections involving the skin only.
An external or superficial thing; outward manner; superficial remark, etc.
Only superficial viewing can condemn this film as superficial.

Just how trivial is that piece of me?
Way to bully publishers over something so trivial.
Indeed, I am quickly assigned several trivial tasks.
CPUs and my problem was trivial to parallelize.
It is the snobbishness of the young to suppose that a theorem is trivial because the proof is trivial.
Many many many years later, I still often make the mistake of assuming things that look trivial to me are also trivial to others.
What we found also is that they had a shortfall, and it seems trivial but it is not trivial, of personnel specialists.
While deploying Azure AD Directory Synchronization is generally a trivial exercise, establishing and maintaining a highly available ADFS infrastructure is not trivial.
What trivial, trivial stuff, interesting to hardly a soul under heaven, save only about three!
It is very trivial stuff, and when not trivial usually false.

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