Word Study
profoundness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun profoundness has 5 senses
- profoundness(n = noun.state) Array - extremeness of degree; "the profoundness of his ignorance" is a kind of ultimacy, ultimateness
- profoundness(n = noun.cognition) abstruseness, abstrusity, profundity, reconditeness - wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs" is a kind of wisdom
- profoundness(n = noun.cognition) astuteness, deepness, depth, profundity - the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas; Array is a kind of sapience, wisdom
- profoundness(n = noun.attribute) deepness, profundity - the quality of being physically deep; "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile" is a kind of deepness, depth
- profoundness(n = noun.attribute) profundity - intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence" is a kind of depth
Derived forms adjective profound5, adjective profound4, adjective profound2, adjective profound1
Derived form adjective profound3
Derived form adjective profound1
has particulars: bottomlessness
Derived form adjective profound6
Derived form adjective profound1
CIDE DICTIONARY
profoundness, n.
The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker. [1913 Webster]
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