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profundities

profundities is the plural of profundity.

Meaning of profundity

Noun

profundity (countable and uncountable, plural profundities)

  1. The state of being profound; magnitude, gravity, or intensity.
    • The situation's profundity escaped most observers.
    Synonyms:
    profoundness
  2. Deep intellect or insight.
    • Near-synonyms: brilliance, genius
    Antonyms:
    stupidity
  3. (uncommon) A great depth; a deep place.
    • Near-synonym: abyss
    Synonyms:
    abyss
    Antonyms:
    shoal, shallow
  4. (archaic) Depth; the state of possessing great downwards extent.
    • [A] sharp-looking old dame, […] inhabited a "laigh [low] shop," anglicé [in English], a cellar, opening to the High-street by a strait and steep stair, at the bottom of which she sold tape, thread, needles, skeans of worsted, coarse linen cloth, and such feminine gear, to those who had the courage...1816, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in The Antiquary. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 4
    Synonyms:
    deepness

Questions about profundities

What is profundities the plural of?
Profundities is the plural of profundity.

Words near profundities in the dictionary

  1. profundicating
  2. profundified
  3. profundifies
  4. profundify
  5. profundifying
  6. profundities
  7. profunditude
  8. profundity
  9. profundulid
  10. profundulids
  11. profurca

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