profundity

pro·fun·di·ty  (pr-fnd-t, pr-)

n. pl. pro·fun·di·ties

1. Great depth.

2. Depth of intellect, feeling, or meaning.

3. Something profound or abstruse.

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[Middle English profundite, from Old French, from Late Latin profundits, from Latin profundus, deep; see profound.]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	profundity - wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs" abstrusity, reconditeness, abstruseness, profoundness wisdom - accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
	2.	profundity - intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence" profoundness depth - degree of psychological or intellectual profundity shallowness, superficiality - lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling
	3.	profundity - the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas deepness, astuteness, profoundness, depth sapience, wisdom - ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
	4.	profundity - the quality of being physically deep; "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile" deepness, profoundness depth, deepness - the extent downward or backward or inward; "the depth of the water"; "depth of a shelf"; "depth of a closet" bottomlessness - the property of being very deep; without limit

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profundity

noun

1. insight, intelligence, depth, wisdom, learning, penetration, acumen, erudition, acuity, perspicacity, sagacity, perceptiveness, perspicuity the profundity of this book

2. intensity, strength, depth, seriousness, severity, extremity the profundity of the problems besetting the country

Translations

profundity [prəˈfʌndɪtɪ] N (frm) → profundidad f

profundity [prəˈfʌndɪti] n

(intellectual) → profondeur f

[feeling, experience, change, problem] → profondeur f

profundity

n

no pl → Tiefe f; (of thought, thinker, book etc) → Tiefgründigkeit f, → Tiefsinnigkeit f; (of knowledge) → Gründlichkeit f

(= profound remark) → Tiefsinnigkeit f

profundity [prəˈfʌndɪtɪ] n → profondità