Hollow and Surface

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Hollow adjective - Curved inward.

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Surface and hollow are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Surface" instead an adjective "Hollow".

Nearby Words: hollowed, hollowing, hollowly

Surface adjective - Lying on or affecting only the outer layer of something.

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Hollow and surface are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hollow" instead an adjective "Surface".

Nearby Words: surfaced, surfacing

interior	interior hollow	interior surface
stable	stable hollow	stable surface
artificial	artificial hollow	artificial surface
small	small hollow	small surface
Other adjectives: real, large, cold, inner.

Eternia, world of the Masters of the Universe, is a hollow planet with an entire "Subternia" existing below its surface, complete with a multi-armed giant in the center holding everything together.

Source: Hollow World aka: Hollow Earth
It turns out the other world, Endora, is just the inside of his own hollow world and the Endorans historically know of "the surface" even though "the surface" only has myths like Shamballa.

Source: Trapped in Another World
However, the trope is subverted since Heaven and Hell are not so much hollow as complex multi-dimensional shapes (like klein bottles) that have an inner surface but no outer surface.

Source: Literature / The Salvation War

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