profundity
profundity Lexical Profile
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• noun
Great depth of intellect, insight, feeling, or meaning; the quality of being intellectually or emotionally profound.
"Critics praised the novel for the emotional profundity of its central characters."
A deeply insightful, complex, or weighty thought, statement, or idea (often used in the plural).
"During the lecture, the philosopher shared several profundities about the nature of human consciousness."
Great physical depth, or a very deep place or abyss.
"Submersibles are engineered to withstand the crushing pressures found in the darkest profundities of the ocean."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in Middle English from Old French profondite, from Late Latin profunditas, derived from Latin profundus ('deep, bottomless'), a compound of pro- ('before, forth') and fundus ('bottom').