Associations to the word «Profundity»

Wiktionary

PROFUNDITY, noun. The state of being profound or abstruse.
PROFUNDITY, noun. A great depth.
PROFUNDITY, noun. Deep intellect or insight.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky