Word.ws English Dictionary

deepity

deepity noun: a superficial equivocation which only seems to be profound.

Noun

deepity (plural deepities)

  1. A superficial equivocation which only seems to be profound.
    • And yet, no clearer example of a deepity will you find than the assertion that math is an instinct.2009 November 27, Chris Schoen, “Deepity Structure”, in Underverse, retrieved 31 May 2012

Forms of deepity

pluraldeepities

Origin of deepity

From deep + -ity, the word was created by Miriam Weizenbaum and given a precise definition by Daniel Dennett.

Questions about deepity

What does deepity mean?
Deepity means a superficial equivocation which only seems to be profound.
What part of speech is deepity?
Deepity is a noun.
What is the plural of deepity?
The plural of deepity is deepities.

Words near deepity in the dictionary

  1. deepithelialize
  2. deepithelialized
  3. deepithelializes
  4. deepithelializing
  5. deepities
  6. deepity
  7. deeplier
  8. deepliest
  9. deeply
  10. deepmost
  11. deepness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: deepity (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “deepity.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/deepity. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.