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Profundity vs Opacity - What's the difference?

profundity | opacity |

As nouns the difference between profundity and opacity

is that profundity is the state of being profound or abstruse while opacity is (uncountable) the state or quality of being opaque, not allowing light to pass through.

profundity

English

Noun

(profundities)
  • The state of being profound or abstruse.
  • A great depth.
  • Deep intellect or insight.

    • Synonyms

    * profoundness

    opacity

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being opaque, not allowing light to pass through
    • We could not see the sandbar due to the opacity of the muddy water.
  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being inaccessible to understanding
    • The opacity of these decisions is troubling.
  • (optics, countable) A measure of relative impenetrability to electromagnetic radiation such as light.
    • The opacity of a clean glass window is near zero.

    Synonyms

    * opaqueness

    Coordinate terms

    * transparency