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Noun: profundity  pru'fún-di-tee or prow'fún-di-tee
  1. The quality of being deep, intense, or absolute
    "The profundity of their grief left them speechless";
    - profoundness
     
  2. The quality of showing deep understanding, insight, or perception
    "The profundity of his philosophical writings was widely recognized";
    - astuteness, profoundness, depth, deepness
     
  3. The quality of being difficult to understand or obscurely profound
    "the anthropologist was impressed by the profundity of the native proverbs";
    - reconditeness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness
     
  4. The quality of being physically deep
    "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile";
    - deepness, profoundness

Derived forms: profundities

Type of: deepness, depth, sapience, wisdom