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

   Antonyms:

   shallowness, triviality

2. Deep intellect or insight.
   • Near-synonyms: brilliance, genius
   • Unfortunately, Andrew's colossal ego means people miss his profundity.

   Synonyms:

   profoundness, brilliance, genius

   Antonyms:

   stupidity

3. (uncommon) A great depth; a deep place.
   • Near-synonym: abyss
   • I delved the abyssal profundities of Neptune's realm.

   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