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Noun: profundity  pru'fúnditee
  1. Wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
    - reconditeness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness
     
  2. Intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc
    - profoundness
     
  3. The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
    - astuteness, profoundness, depth, deepness
     
  4. The quality of being physically deep
    "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile"
    - deepness, profoundness

Derived forms: profundities

See also: profound

Type of: deepness, depth, sapience, wisdom

Antonym: superficiality