noun
- Wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound.
- usage: "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs"
- synonyms: reconditeness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness
- Intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc.
- usage: "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence"
- synonyms: profoundness
- The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas.
- synonyms: astuteness, profoundness, depth, deepness
- The quality of being physically deep.
- usage: "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile"
- synonyms: deepness, profoundness
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