Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Profundity"
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) 1.7 (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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