Profundity
[prə'fʌndətɪ] or [prə'fʌndəti]
Definition
(noun.) intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc; 'the depth of my feeling'; 'the profoundness of the silence'.
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Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being profound; depth of place, knowledge, feeling, etc.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Depth, deepness.
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Examples
- I assured her that its profundity was quite unfathomable, and expressed my belief that nothing like it had ever been known. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I beg your pardon, but professional profundity must be exact. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A forest valley, with rocky sides and brown profundity of shade, formed by tree crowding on tree, descends deep before me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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