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- noun A
superficial equivocation which only seems to beprofound .
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From deep + -ity; coined by Daniel Dennett.
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Dennett used "deepity" for a statement that is apparently profound, but is actually trivial on one level and meaningless on another.
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ry commented on the word deepity
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