profundity
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| —adj | |
| 1. | penetrating deeply into subjects or ideas: a profound mind |
| 2. | showing or requiring great knowledge or understanding: a profound treatise |
| 3. | situated at or extending to a great depth |
| 4. | reaching to or stemming from the depths of one's nature: profound regret |
| 5. | intense or absolute: profound silence |
| 6. | thoroughgoing; extensive: profound changes |
| —n | |
| 7. | archaic, literary or a great depth; abyss |
| [C14: from Old French profund, from Latin profundus deep, from | |
| pro'foundly | |
| —adv | |
| pro'foundness | |
| —n | |
| profundity | |
| —n | |
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Profundity
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Example sentences
Old age doesn't automatically confer wisdom and artistic profundity.
But its insistence on its own profundity is wearying.
And photographs of antique mirrors fall short of philosophical profundity.
The show's nearly single-minded devotion to painting accounts for the humbling breadth of its vision and profundity.
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