profundity

n 1: wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the

anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the

native proverbs" [syn: {reconditeness}, {abstruseness},

{abstrusity}, {profoundness}]

2: intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight;

etc: "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the

silence" [syn: {profoundness}] [ant: {superficiality}]

3: the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

[syn: {astuteness}, {profoundness}, {depth}]

4: the quality of being physically deep: "the profundity of the

mine was almost a mile" [syn: {deepness}, {profoundness}]

[ant: {shallowness}]