profundity, n.All

Profundity is wont to present as unresponsiveness. With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Many impatient onlookers too quickly suppose them unresponsive, or even boring.

Profundity is paradoxical. To reach a deep thought one has to climb.

A Profundity is often an equivocation — trivially true in one sense, obviously false in another, and deep and subtle only if you do not choose.

Profundity is its opposite. The deepest is the simplest and most obvious.

Profundity is what we often call it when both the speaker and the audience are confused.

Profundity is necessary for the great man — A great ship must have deep water.