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profundity

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Another study found this trait is also associated with people who ascribe profundity to randomly generated nonsense statements.

This is a series that’s always tantalizing viewers with glimpses of profundity—in its political commentary, its plot complexity, its character development.

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She advised Short-Colomb on shaping the personal and historical details, but it was the questions the budding performer raised that provided profundity.

Motherless children on earth often have a hard time reattaching to people because of the profundity of the loss.

I recall during our conversation that I had a profundity to offer.

They have to learn the profundity of the sorrow and the pain that the memory of the Holocaust evokes, and they have to respect it.

Nikos Kazantzakis had no problems writing a moving novel of beauty, profundity, and luminosity.

The most profound truths are often the simplest ones, and Wallace was a genius at revealing the simplicity of profundity.

They have a natural air which is alike free from affected profundity and insipid childishness.

The capacity of a people for profundity is not profundity, either of the individual or of the community.

Even as I looked she vanished into the dark profundity beneath, and then I directed my glances above me.

Once more Mohammed demonstrates his great profundity and insight into the character, the customs and traditions of his countrymen.

Whether this inclination be an exciting cause, or rather a valid proof of such profundity, it is a nice thing to say.

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On this page you'll find 58 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to profundity, such as: solidity, sophistication, acumen, astuteness, balance, and brains.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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