(profundities)
1.
Profundity is great intellectual depth and understanding.
The ~ of this book is achieved with breathtaking lightness.
= depth, shallowness
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2.
If you refer to the ~ of a feeling, experience, or change, you mean that it is deep, powerful, or serious.
...the ~ of the structural problems besetting the country.
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A ~ is a remark that shows great intellectual depth and understanding.
His work is full of profundities and asides concerning the human condition.
? banality
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