1
[ noun ] intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc

Synonyms

profoundness

Examples

: "the depth of my feeling" "the profoundness of the silence"

Used in print

(Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)

In_fact , it is in just such a situation that the profundity of Bultmann 's argument is disclosed .

Related terms

superficiality depth

2
[ noun ] wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound

Examples

"the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs"

Used in print

(John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)

He read Henry_James and used_to pretend profundity through eye-beamings at people .

Related terms

wisdom

3
[ noun ] the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

Related terms

wisdom

4
[ noun ] the quality of being physically deep

Examples

: "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile"

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