Meaning of PROFUNDITY
| Pronunciation: | | pru'funditee
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- [n] intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence"
- [n] the quality of being physically deep; "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile"
- [n] the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
- [n] wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs"
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| | Synonyms: | | abstruseness, abstrusity, astuteness, deepness, depth, profoundness, profoundness, reconditeness |
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| | Antonyms: | | shallowness, superficiality | | |
| | See Also: | | bottomlessness, depth, sapience, wisdom | |
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| | Definition: | | \Pro*fun"di*ty\, n.; pl. {-ties}. [L. profunditas:
cf. F. profondite. See {Profound}.]
The quality or state of being profound; depth of place,
knowledge, feeling, etc. ``The vast profundity obscure.''
--Milton.
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