profundity

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being profound; depth of place, knowledge, feeling, etc.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

profoundness deepness depth abstruseness astuteness abstrusity reconditeness sapience knowledge reason enlightenment abyss understanding intelligence difficulty
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Antonyms

superficiality meridian contrast peak accuracy altitude
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Hypernyms

sapience deepness depth wisdom

Hyponyms

bottomlessness

Derivatives

-ties

Examples

Now, 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

Close letter words and terms

profundicate profundify profunditude profundulid profurca profurcal