profundity

/prəˈfʌndɪti/

Other forms: profundities

Profundity describes being thoughtful, deep, and wise. Your profundity might inspire friends to come to you for advice.

Profundity comes from the word profound and it means a quality of depth or wisdom that is meaningful or even transformational. The profundity of a piece of music might move you to tears, and the profundity of certain philosophies can be deep — and a bit confusing. Profundity can describe something that's intense, like the profundity of the silence in the room following the announcement of bad news.

Definitions of profundity

1. noun

   the quality of being physically deep
   “the profundity of the mine was almost a mile”

   synonyms: deepness, profoundness

   types:

   bottomlessness

   the property of being very deep; without limit

   type of:

   deepness, depth

   the extent downward or backward or inward
2. noun

   intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc
   synonyms: profoundness

   antonyms:

   superficiality

   lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling

   type of:

   depth

   degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
3. noun

   the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
   synonyms: astuteness, deepness, depth, profoundness

   type of:

   sapience, wisdom

   ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
4. noun

   wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
   synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, reconditeness

   type of:

   wisdom

   accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment