superficies

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin superficiēs (“top, surface”), from super- (“above, over”) + faciēs (“form, configuration, shape”). Doublet of surface.

noun

1. (geometry) A two-dimensional magnitude that has length and breadth; especially such a surface that forms the boundary of a solid.
   1. The area of a two-dimensional surface.
   2. The visible, external surface of a body.
2. The surface (of something immaterial, especially of the mind or soul).
   An immense metropolis, like London, is calculated to make men selfish and uninteresting. … They present but the cold superficies of character—its rich and genial qualities have no time to be warmed into a flow. 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Rural Life in England
3. (law) A building intimately associated with the land on which it is built.