profundity

profundity
    n 1: wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the
         anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the
         native proverbs" [syn: {reconditeness}, {abstruseness},
         {abstrusity}, {profoundness}, {profundity}]
    2: intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc;
       "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence"
       [syn: {profundity}, {profoundness}] [ant: {shallowness},
       {superficiality}]
    3: the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas [syn:
       {astuteness}, {profundity}, {profoundness}, {depth},
       {deepness}]
    4: the quality of being physically deep; "the profundity of the
       mine was almost a mile" [syn: {deepness}, {profundity},
       {profoundness}] [ant: {shallowness}]
    

Profundity \Pro*fun"di*ty\, n.; pl. {-ties}. [L. profunditas:
   cf. F. profondite. See {Profound}.]
   The quality or state of being profound; depth of place,
   knowledge, feeling, etc. "The vast profundity obscure."
   --Milton.
   [1913 Webster]
    

68 Moby Thesaurus words for "profundity":
      Sophia, abstruseness, abyss, acumen, ampleness, astuteness,
      bigness, bottomlessness, broad-mindedness, broadness,
      capaciousness, complexity, complication, comprehensiveness,
      copiousness, crabbedness, crampedness, deep-downness,
      deep-rootedness, deep-seatedness, deepness, depth, difficulty,
      discernment, erudition, esoterica, expansiveness, extensiveness,
      extreme innerness, fathomlessness, generousness,
      good understanding, grandeur, grandiosity, grandness, greatness,
      hardness, incomprehensibility, indecipherability, inscrutability,
      interiority, intricacy, involvement, keenness, knottiness,
      knowledgeability, largeness, mellow wisdom, obscurity,
      plumblessness, profoundness, reconditeness, ripe wisdom, sagacity,
      sageness, sapience, scholarliness, scholarship,
      seasoned understanding, sharpness, sound understanding,
      spaciousness, subterraneity, subtlety, tallness, wideness, wisdom,
      wiseness