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Profundity

noun
(pl. profundities)
1.
Wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound.  Synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, reconditeness.
2.
Intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc.  Synonym: profoundness.  "The profoundness of the silence"
3.
The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas.  Synonyms: astuteness, deepness, depth, profoundness.
4.
The quality of being physically deep.  Synonyms: deepness, profoundness.






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"Profundity" Quotes from Famous Books



... Everything that he did and said had some distinction and unusualness: perceptive observation, ripe wisdom, and, with it all, the petulant attractiveness of the spoiled and engaging child. And yet even so, one is baffled, because it is not the profundity or the gravity of what he said that impresses; it is rather the delicate and fantastic turn he gave to a thought or a phrase that makes his simplest deductions from life, his most sensible bits of ...
— Escape and Other Essays • Arthur Christopher Benson

... sensation of departed pain almost atone for the discomfort of its presence? How heartily, for your sake, would I be the most profound and able writer in the world, and how gladly should all my profundity and ability be laid at your ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 • Various

... man, with a sandy-coloured head inclined to baldness, and a face in which solemn importance was blended with a look of unfathomable profundity. He was dressed in a long brown surtout, with a black cloth waistcoat, and drab trousers. A double eyeglass dangled at his waistcoat; and on his head he wore a very low-crowned hat with a broad brim. The new-comer was introduced to Mr. Pickwick ...
— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens

... hands cordially and introduced him to his wife who bowed with one of her "sweet" looks. For the moment David did not interest her. She was much more interested in trying to give an impression of profundity to Lady Feenix who was commenting on the professor's discoveries of the strange properties of the thyroid gland. A few introductions were effected—Lady Towcester, Lady Flower, Miss Knipper-Totes, Lady ...
— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston

... Johnson said, his Pastorals were poor things, though the versification was fine. He told us, with high satisfaction, the anecdote of Pope's inquiring who was the authour of his London, and saying, he will be soon deterre. He observed, that in Dryden's poetry there were passages drawn from a profundity which Pope could never reach. He repeated some fine lines on love, by the former, (which I have now forgotten,) and gave great applause to the character of Zimri. Goldsmith said, that Pope's character of Addison shewed a deep knowledge of the human heart. Johnson said, that the description ...
— Life of Johnson - Abridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood • James Boswell


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