Profundity Definition & Meaning

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

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