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Profundity
Definitions
- 1 The state of being profound; magnitude, gravity, or intensity. countable, uncountable
"The situation's profundity escaped most observers."
- 2 intellectual depth, penetrating knowledge, keen insight, etc. wordnet
- 3 Deep intellect or insight. countable, uncountable
"Near-synonyms: brilliance, genius"
- 4 the quality of being physically deep wordnet
- 5 A great depth; a deep place. countable, uncommon, uncountable
"Near-synonym: abyss"
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- 6 the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas wordnet
- 7 Depth; the state of possessing great downwards extent. archaic, countable, uncountable
"[A] sharp-looking old dame, […] inhabited a "laigh [low] shop," anglicé [in English], a cellar, opening to the High-street by a strait and steep stair, at the bottom of which she sold tape, thread, needles, skeans of worsted, coarse linen cloth, and such feminine gear, to those who had the courage and skill to descend to the profundity of her dwelling, without falling headlong themselves, or throwing down any of the numerous articles which, piled on each side of the descent, indicated the profession of the trader below."
- 8 wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound wordnet
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English profundite, from Middle French profondite or its etymon Latin profunditās; by surface analysis, prof(o)und + ity. Compare profoundness.
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