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profunditypro‧fun‧di‧ty /prəˈfʌndəti/ noun (plural profundities) formal  - Fairy tales have a surprising profundity.
- The profundities of his speech were lost on the young audience.
- At least I got to know some of the background to the paintings; the symbolism and the profundity of meaning.
- He didn't understand the profundity of Estabrook's pain; he was too chilly, too remote.
- Readers of this book will recognize that this attitude is an error of great profundity.
- So back to California he presumably went, without being given the chance to display his profundities before a packed courtroom.
- That is to say that conceptual profundity must be balanced by clarity of content and simplicity of form.
- There were those at that time who cultivated melancholy to give themselves the appearance of profundity.
- Yet despite the flow of movement from one form to the next, the structure of the painting lacks profundity.
1[uncountable] when someone or something shows great knowledge and understanding, or strong serious feelings SYN depth: The cartoon version lacks the profundity of the original text.2[countable usually plural] something that someone says that shows great knowledge and understanding: the profundities of her speech |