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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
profundity
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Fairy tales have a surprising profundity.
▪ The profundities of his speech were lost on the young audience.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At least I got to know some of the background to the paintings; the symbolism and the profundity of meaning.
▪ He didn't understand the profundity of Estabrook's pain; he was too chilly, too remote.
▪ Readers of this book will recognize that this attitude is an error of great profundity.
▪ So back to California he presumably went, without being given the chance to display his profundities before a packed courtroom.
▪ That is to say that conceptual profundity must be balanced by clarity of content and simplicity of form.
▪ There were those at that time who cultivated melancholy to give themselves the appearance of profundity.
▪ Yet despite the flow of movement from one form to the next, the structure of the painting lacks profundity.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Profundity

Profundity \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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
profundity

early 15c., "bottom of the sea," from Old French profundite (Modern French profondité) and directly from Late Latin profunditatem (nominative profunditas) "depth, intensity, immensity," from profundus "deep, vast" (see profound). Meaning "depth of intellect" in English is from c.1500.

Wiktionary
profundity

n. 1 The state of being profound or abstruse. 2 A great depth. 3 deep intellect or insight.

WordNet
profundity

  1. n. wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs" [syn: reconditeness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness]

  2. intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence" [syn: profoundness] [ant: superficiality]

  3. the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas [syn: astuteness, profoundness, depth]

  4. the quality of being physically deep; "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile" [syn: deepness, profoundness] [ant: shallowness]

Usage examples of "profundity".

Out of the bottomless profundities the gigantic tail seems spasmodically snatching at the highest heaven.

The rumbling was mingled with a subterranean roar, which formed a sort of rinforzando, and died slowly away, as if some violent storm had passed through the profundities of the globe.

This worthy and particularly learned man said a thousand things about the marriage, some of great profundity and others of great absurdity.

In the first engraving a noble Sperm Whale is depicted in full majesty of might, just risen beneath the boat from the profundities of the ocean, and bearing high in the.

Conspicuous in any company is Chief Worminger Drofo, who deals with the profundities of nature as casually as Angshott the cook juggles his broad-beans and garlic.

When we read the praises bestowed by Lord Penzance and the other illustrious experts upon the legal condition and legal aptnesses, brilliances, profundities, and felicities so prodigally displayed in the Plays, and try to fit them to the historyless Stratford stage-manager, they sound wild, strange, incredible, ludicrous.

Glory, the Hall of Proclaimed Intellect, the Hall of Reverence for the Master (which is the second-greatest library in the world, the first being in Ch'ang-an), and there in the great courtyard of the Hall of Literary Profundity stood the soul pole, left of the entrance, and beneath the red banner flew the flag of a senior scholar who was entitled to display all fourteen symbols of academic distinction: wishing pearls, musical stone, good-luck clouds, rhombus, rhinoceros-horn cup, books, pictures, maple, yarrow, banana leaf, tripod, herb of immortality, money, and the silver shoe.

This is the profundity I've distilled from all my experience: sex with love is better than sex without love.

God knows why, maybe out of pique at being left behind), to the Caucus Race of the Malforms (where I fit right in, as crapped up and bloody as I was), to the Lair of the Blessed Profundity of the Unspeakable Trihll (which I could not, even if I had several mouths, pronounce.

The leading music critic of the planet had written a series of articles about Simon's genius, claiming that he evoked a profundity and a truth from his instru­.

Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped it in the refuse for the bards and the poets to find, and mangle into yodeling paeans to love.

He knew that in the profundity of this deep sleep they were contemplating unplumbed vastnesses of utter and absolute outsideness, and that they were to accomplish that which his presence had demanded.

But now, instead of paying attention to his duty, he was plunging deeper and deeper into the paroxysmally ecstatic profundity of a thionite debauch from which there was to be no awakening.

It is pretty generally admitted that Geoffrey Chaucer, the eminent poet of the fourteenth century, though obsessed with an almost Rooseveltian passion for the new spelling, was there with the goods when it came to profundity of thought.

There seemed an underly­ing pattern of profundity in his wild utterings, if I could but deci­pher the language.