A
proposition that seems to be profound because it is actually
logically ill-formed. A deepity balances
precariously between multiple interpretations, at least one of which is obvious and trivial and at least one of which would be earth-shaking except that it is false.
A: Love is
just a word.
B: What a bogus deepity. "Love" is just a word; any word is just a word. Love,
whatever it is -- whether it is an emotion, a state of being, an evolutionary adaptation, an
illusion promoted by romantic novelists -- it is not "just a word."