Wondering how to use Profundity in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as profoundness or depth.
Profundity in a sentence
Profundity meaning
- The state of being profound; magnitude, gravity, or intensity.
- Deep intellect or insight.
- A great depth; a deep place.
Synonyms of Profundity
Using Profundity
- The main meaning on this page is: The state of being profound; magnitude, gravity, or intensity. | Deep intellect or insight. | A great depth; a deep place.
- Useful related words include: profoundness, depth, wisdom, deepness.
- In the example corpus, profundity often appears in combinations such as: profundity of, of profundity, the profundity.
Context around Profundity
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 7 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Profundity
- In this selection, "profundity" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, emotional, musical, understatement and becomes stand out and add context to how "profundity" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include clarity without profundity is arguably and depth and profundity of the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "profundity" sits close to words such as aarons, abra and accelerations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with profundity
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
There’s wonder in your understatement, profundity in your silence. (10 words)
The actors agreed that Beckett’s play, although full of profundity, is hilarious. (13 words)
It is an interesting circular reasoning, as situational clarity without profundity is arguably impossible. (14 words)
Critic Paul de Man notes, "Whatever Borges's existential anxieties may be, they have little in common with Sartre's robustly prosaic view of literature, with the earnestness of Camus' moralism, or with the weighty profundity of German existential thought. (40 words)
By the finish of the parade of nations there was such profundity of inanity from her mouth it was an event of itself to discover whether love of the Games could outlast a loathing of this morbid stupidity. (38 words)
His musical profundity and virtuosity has also afforded him opportunities to play with some cutting-edge American jazz artists, including saxophonists Steve Coleman and Greg Osby, guitarist Nir Felder, and drummers Ari Hoenig and Dan Weiss. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
After so much studying the classics as a literature student, it was a relief to read about this Baltimore family and be reminded that profundity can emerge from domestic detail.
It is an interesting circular reasoning, as situational clarity without profundity is arguably impossible.
Its profundity becomes even more obvious if compared to another cover, from the same publication soon after the Israeli military conquered massive Arab territories in the of June 1967.
The actors agreed that Beckett’s play, although full of profundity, is hilarious.
The book begins with the sisters discussing the absurdity of marriage with such wit and profundity that you are immediately attached to their characters, to say nothing of the charm and complexity of their lovers.
Through most of our history, we were not known for our profundity or culture but for living at full throttle.
Aoyama is instantly captivated by Asami Yamazaki, fascinated by her outward emotional profundity, but he has no idea what darkness lies beneath her charming façade.
His musical profundity and virtuosity has also afforded him opportunities to play with some cutting-edge American jazz artists, including saxophonists Steve Coleman and Greg Osby, guitarist Nir Felder, and drummers Ari Hoenig and Dan Weiss.
It’s no wonder she’s lent it to the likes of Perfume Genius, Drugdealer and Ariel Pink: it adds a touch of profundity to everything it meets.
The great Kirsty MacColl lends her beautiful vocals to this 1988 classic, which deftly mixes profanity with profundity.
There’s wonder in your understatement, profundity in your silence.
Narrative in miniature is a high-wire act. It’s easy for a writer to step out boldly only to tip into triteness or ersatz profundity.
Rather, they’re merely extended origins of profundity that never get to go any further.
The teenage characters are all emo and no real emotion, vessels for the film’s sweetest but thinnest stabs at profundity.
By the finish of the parade of nations there was such profundity of inanity from her mouth it was an event of itself to discover whether love of the Games could outlast a loathing of this morbid stupidity.
This supine self-censorship goes way beyond political correctness, a shop-worn term too pallid for the profundity of the problem.
Aspasia, in her limitedness as a woman cannot grasp the profundity of masculine thought.
Critic Paul de Man notes, "Whatever Borges's existential anxieties may be, they have little in common with Sartre's robustly prosaic view of literature, with the earnestness of Camus' moralism, or with the weighty profundity of German existential thought.
For Merleau-Ponty, science neglects the depth and profundity of the phenomena that it endeavors to explain.
Leopardi destroys everything, condemns everything, but wishes to save love from the universal miasma and protect it at least within the profundity of his own soul.
Common combinations with profundity
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- profundity of 7×
- of profundity 4×
- the profundity 3×
- profundity is 2×
- and profundity 2×
- profundity that 2×