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.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "profundity":
Sophia, abstruseness, abyss, acumen, ampleness, astuteness,
bigness, bottomlessness, broad-mindedness, broadness,
capaciousness, complexity, complication, comprehensiveness,
copiousness, crabbedness, crampedness, deep-downness,
deep-rootedness, deep-seatedness, deepness, depth, difficulty,
discernment, erudition, esoterica, expansiveness, extensiveness,
extreme innerness, fathomlessness, generousness,
good understanding, grandeur, grandiosity, grandness, greatness,
hardness, incomprehensibility, indecipherability, inscrutability,
interiority, intricacy, involvement, keenness, knottiness,
knowledgeability, largeness, mellow wisdom, obscurity,
plumblessness, profoundness, reconditeness, ripe wisdom, sagacity,
sageness, sapience, scholarliness, scholarship,
seasoned understanding, sharpness, sound understanding,
spaciousness, subterraneity, subtlety, tallness, wideness, wisdom,
wiseness
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abstruseness, abstrusity, astuteness, deepness, depth, profoundness, reconditeness
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