profundity meaning and definition

PROFUNDITY noun

Definition of profundity (noun)

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