profundity Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
    reconditeness; abstruseness; abstrusity; profoundness.
    • the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs
  2. noun intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc
    profoundness.
    • the depth of my feeling
    • the profoundness of the silence
  3. noun the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
    depth; astuteness; profoundness; deepness.
  4. noun the quality of being physically deep
    profoundness; deepness.
    • the profundity of the mine was almost a mile

WordNet


Pro*fun"di*ty noun
Etymology
L. profunditas: cf. F. profondite. See Profound.
Wordforms
plural -ties
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being profound; depth of place, knowledge, feeling, etc. "The vast profundity obscure." Milton.

Webster 1913