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profundity

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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.

[Middle English profundite, from Old French, from Late Latin profundits, from Latin profundus, deep; see profound.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.profundityprofundity - wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs"
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"
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
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"
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

profundity
noun
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 plTiefe f; (of thought, thinker, book etc)Tiefgründigkeit f, → Tiefsinnigkeit f; (of knowledge)Gründlichkeit f
(= profound remark)Tiefsinnigkeit f
profundity [prəˈfʌndɪtɪ] nprofondità
profundity [prəˈfʌndɪtɪ] nprofondità


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If it were a record of a solemn scientific expedition, it would have about it that gravity, that profundity, and that impressive incomprehensibility which are so proper to works of that kind, and withal so attractive.
Moreover, Speranski, either because he appreciated the other's capacity or because he considered it necessary to win him to his side, showed off his dispassionate calm reasonableness before Prince Andrew and flattered him with that subtle flattery which goes hand in hand with self-assurance and consists in a tacit assumption that one's companion is the only man besides oneself capable of understanding the folly of the rest of mankind and the reasonableness and profundity of one's own ideas.
Speaking now,' returned Mortimer, 'with the irresponsible imbecility of a private individual, and not with the profundity of a professional adviser, I should say that if the circumstance of its being too much, weighs upon your mind, you have the haven of consolation open to you that you can easily make it less.
 
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