PROFUNDITY
Dictionary entry overview: What does profundity mean?
• PROFUNDITY (noun)
The noun PROFUNDITY has 4 senses:
1. wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
2. intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc
3. the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
4. the quality of being physically deep
Familiarity information: PROFUNDITY used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• PROFUNDITY (noun)
Meaning:
Wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
abstrusity; profundity; reconditeness; abstruseness; profoundness
Context example:
the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs
Hypernyms ("profundity" is a kind of...):
wisdom (accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment)
Meaning:
Intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
profundity; profoundness
Context examples:
the depth of my feeling / the profoundness of the silence
Hypernyms ("profundity" is a kind of...):
depth (degree of psychological or intellectual profundity)
Antonym:
superficiality (lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling)
Meaning:
The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
deepness; astuteness; profundity; profoundness; depth
Hypernyms ("profundity" is a kind of...):
sapience; wisdom (ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight)
Meaning:
The quality of being physically deep
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
deepness; profoundness; profundity
Context example:
the profundity of the mine was almost a mile
Hypernyms ("profundity" is a kind of...):
depth (extent downward or backward or inward)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "profundity"):
bottomlessness (the property of being very deep; without limit)
