Profoundness \Pro*found"ness\, n.
The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth.
--Hooker.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
profoundness
n 1: wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the
anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the
native proverbs" [syn: reconditeness, abstruseness,
abstrusity, profundity]
2: the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
[syn: astuteness, profundity, depth]
3: the quality of being physically deep; "the profundity of the
mine was almost a mile" [syn: deepness, profundity]
[ant: shallowness]
4: intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight;
etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the
silence" [syn: profundity] [ant: superficiality]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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