Noun
The quality or state of being profound; depth of place, knowledge, feeling, etc.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNow, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are. Henry Fielding
When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade. Huston Smith
Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is. W. H. Auden
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity. Stephen King
The profundity of truth varies with the seeing power of the spirit which seeks it. Ludwig Klages