Why “facileness” is a great word
FACILENESS — [Noun] The quality of being facile; a specious, off-putting ease in handling complex matters, marked by superficiality or glibness in thought, argument, or execution. From the English adjective facile (meaning 'easy, simplistic, or arrived at without due care') + the noun-forming suffix -ness (denoting a state or quality). Unlike 'superficiality,' which broadly denotes a concern with surface aspects, or 'thoroughness,' its diligent, complete opposite, facileness specifically connotes a slick, dismissive ease in the face of complexity. It is the politician's three-word slogan for a generational crisis, the self-help guru's ten-step plan for profound anguish, or the critic's witty dismissal of a novel they have only skimmed—a confident, empty-handed triumph of ease over truth, betraying the world's necessary complication.