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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (5)

1. extremeness of degree;
- Example: "the profoundness of his ignorance"

2. wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound;
- Example: "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs"
[syn: reconditeness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, profundity]

3. the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas;
[syn: astuteness, profundity, profoundness, depth, deepness]

4. the quality of being physically deep;
- Example: "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile"
[syn: deepness, profundity, profoundness]

5. intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc;
- Example: "the depth of my feeling"
- Example: "the profoundness of the silence"
[syn: profundity, profoundness]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Profoundness \Pro*found"ness\, n.
   The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth.
   --Hooker.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

profoundness
    n 1: extremeness of degree; "the profoundness of his ignorance"
    2: wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the
       anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the
       native proverbs" [syn: reconditeness, abstruseness,
       abstrusity, profoundness, profundity]
    3: the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas [syn:
       astuteness, profundity, profoundness, depth,
       deepness]
    4: the quality of being physically deep; "the profundity of the
       mine was almost a mile" [syn: deepness, profundity,
       profoundness] [ant: shallowness]
    5: intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc;
       "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence"
       [syn: profundity, profoundness] [ant: shallowness,
       superficiality]