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  • noun A superficial equivocation which only seems to be profound.

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From deep +‎ -ity; coined by Daniel Dennett.

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  • came across this in an old Guardian UK article and find it's been attended to by assiduous wiktionarists. The gratifyingly droll phrase beware of deepities is the subheading beginning the paragraph in the article

    May 24, 2013