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profundity

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  profundity 
  n  1:  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}]




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