profundity
noun
the quality or state of being profound; depth.
profundities
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pluralof profundity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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For those, to put it more generously, pulled in by the simple pleasures and crystalline profundities of the text.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 2, 2026
Bankman-Fried exploited the vacuity of crypto as an asset by slathering it over with what sounded like profundities but were vacuous at their core.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 3, 2023
And there’s a high risk of sentimentality here: the precious Messiah child mewing his little Whitmanesque profundities at us about the unity of all life.
From Washington Post β Sep. 21, 2021
The book’s prose passages are interspersed with sections laid out as blank verse, inadvertently demonstrating that mundane reflections aren’t transformed into profundities merely by centring them on the page and inserting a few line breaks.
From The Guardian β Jan. 12, 2019
"There is a sort of vitality about life," said Mr. Brumley, and stopped as if on the verge of profundities.
From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
