profundity

1. 1.

   wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound

   “the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs”

   Synonymsreconditenessabstrusenessabstrusityprofoundness

   Broaderwisdom
2. 2.

   intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc

   “the depth of my feeling”

   “the profoundness of the silence”

   Synonymsprofoundness

   Antonymssuperficiality

   Broaderdepth
3. 3.

   the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

   Synonymsastutenessprofoundnessdepthdeepness

   Broaderwisdom
4. 4.

   the quality of being physically deep

   “the profundity of the mine was almost a mile”

   Synonymsdeepnessprofoundness

   Broaderdepth

   Narrowerbottomlessness

Other forms of profundity

plural

profundities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about profundity

What does profundity mean?

profundity means "wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in profundity?

profundity has 4 syllables: pro-fun-di-ty. The stress falls on "fun".

What is another word for profundity?

Close synonyms include reconditeness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, profoundness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of profundity?

The recorded antonyms are superficiality.

Is profundity a common word?

profundity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.