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Definition: Profundity |
ProfundityNoun1. Wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs". 2. Intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc: "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence". 3. The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas. 4. The quality of being physically deep: "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "profundity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Etymology: Profundity \Pro*fun"di*ty\, noun; plural -ties. [Latin expression profunditas: compare to the French expression profondite. See Profound.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: ProfunditySynonyms: abstruseness (n), abstrusity (n), astuteness (n), deepness (n), depth (n), profoundness (n), reconditeness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: shallowness (n), superficiality (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affectation | Charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity; pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism; teratology; (altiloquence). |
Depth | Noun: depth; deepness; Adjective: profundity, depression; (concavity). |
Intelligence Wisdom | Wisdom, sapience, sense; good sense, common sense, horse sense, plain sense; rationality, reason; reasonableness; adj; judgment; solidity, depth, profundity, caliber; enlarged views; reach of thought, compass of thought; enlargement of mind. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Profundity |
| English words defined with "profundity": deepness ♦ eye-beaming ♦ profoundness ♦ -ties. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Henry Fielding | In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Profundity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Profundity" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
profundity | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "profundity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عمق شديد, عمق (deepen, depth, heighten, profoundly, profoundness, spit), شىء عميق. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | дълбочина (deepness, depth, intensity, inwardness, penetration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | syvällisyys (depth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | profondeur (profoundness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | tiefgründigkeit, tiefe (abyss, chasm, deepness, depth, depths, direness, gravity, gulf, heaviness, intenseness, intensity, lowness, precipice, profoundly, profoundness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βαθύνοια, βαθύτησ (depth, profoundness), βαθύτητα (depth, profoundness), εμβρίθεια (profoundness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מעמק (abyss, depth), עמקות (depth), עומק (deepness, depth), "תעמקות (penetrating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mélység (abyss, chasm, deep, deepness, depth, depths, drop-off, gulf, precipice, profound, profoundness, the deep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kedalaman (depth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 該博 (extensive), 深さ (depth), 奥深さ (depth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おくふかさ (depth), がいはく (extensive, spending night away from home), ふかさ (depth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | duinid (richness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ofunditypray profundidade (deep, deepness, depth, fathom, thoroughness), profundeza (deepness, depth). (various references) adâncime (abyss, bottom, deep, deepness, depth, height, horizon, pregnancy, profound, profoundness, wisdom). (various references) глубина (deep, deepness, depth, profound, profoundness, thoroughness). (various references) dubina (bottom, deep, deepness, depth, depths, profoundness). (various references) profundidad (deepness, depth, profoundness). (various references) djupsinne (depth, profoundness). (various references) hikmet (gnome, mystery, profoundness, reason, the divine wisdom, wisdom), derinlik (abyss, deep, deepness, depth, perspective, profoundness). (various references) глибина (bathos, deep, deepness, depth, profound, profoundness), безодня (abysm, abyss, chasm, deep, depth, precipice, yawn). (various references) sự xâu sắc (profoundness), sự thâm thuý (profoundness), sự sâu (profoundness), bề dâu sự sâu xa (profoundness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | altitudine, altitudinem, altitudines, altitudinis, altitudo. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Profundity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pofundity, produndity, profoundity, profudity, profunity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "profundity" (pronounced 'Pro*fun"di*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-f-i-n-o-p-r-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: drypoint, punditry, punitory. | |
-3 letters: foundry, introfy, outfind, tripody, upfront. | |
-4 letters: diuron, drifty, durion, forint, fruity, inpour, notify, nudity, pointy, profit, pundit, purify, purity, putrid, rotund, torpid, tripod, tropin, turnip, unipod, untidy, untrod, uptorn. | |
-5 letters: dirty, donut, dorty, drift, dript, droit, dropt, fiord, fondu, forty, found, fount, frond, front, fruit, fundi, futon, input, intro, irony. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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