profundity

Plural: profundities

Noun

• wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
• intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc
• the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
• the quality of being physically deep
  • "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile"
• The state of being profound; magnitude, gravity, or intensity.
• Deep intellect or insight.
• A great depth; a deep place.
• Depth; the state of possessing great downwards extent.

Examples

• I delved the abyssal profundities of Neptune's realm.
• The situation's profundity escaped most observers.
• Unfortunately, Andrew's colossal ego means people miss his profundity.

Synonyms

abstruseness, abstrusity, astuteness, deepness, depth, profoundness, reconditeness

Antonyms

shallowness, superficiality