 profundity |
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| 1. | [ noun ] intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc | |
| Synonyms: | profoundness | |
| Examples: | : "the depth of my feeling" "the profoundness of the silence" |
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| Related terms: | superficiality depth | |
| 2. | [ noun ] wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | |
| Synonyms: | abstruseness abstrusity profoundness reconditeness | |
| Examples: | "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs" |
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| Related terms: | wisdom | |
| 3. | [ noun ] the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | |
| Synonyms: | profoundness depth astuteness | |
| Related terms: | wisdom | |
| 4. | [ noun ] the quality of being physically deep | |
| Synonyms: | profoundness deepness | |
| Examples: | : "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile" |
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| Related terms: | shallowness depth bottomlessness | |
| Similar spelling: |
profanity profound profoundly profaned propound profanely |
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