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the bottomless thing shallow people mistake for being quiet at parties
means The quality of having great depth of thought, insight, or meaning — or a statement that displays it.
from From Latin profundus, 'deep,' built from pro- ('forth, before') and fundus ('bottom') — the same fundus that gives us 'foundation' and 'founder.' Literally, then, profundity is the state of going all the way down to the bottom; it reached English through Late Latin profunditas and Old French, carrying its plunge intact.
- root
- From Latin profundus, literally meaning deep-bottomed
- the trap
- Vagueness often disguises itself as depth
- brevity
- The deepest truths fit on bumper stickers
- silence
- Often signals it better than speech
for instance
darwin's theory of evolution — published 1859, explained the diversity of life through natural selection, overturning centuries of fixed species belief