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English noun: profoundness

1. profoundness (state) extremeness of degree


SamplesThe profoundness of his ignorance.


Broader (hypernym)ultimacy, ultimateness

2. profoundness (cognition) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound


SamplesThe anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs.


Synonymsabstruseness, abstrusity, profundity, reconditeness


Broader (hypernym)wisdom

3. profoundness (cognition) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas


Synonymsastuteness, deepness, depth, profundity


Broader (hypernym)sapience, wisdom

4. profoundness (attribute) the quality of being physically deep


SamplesThe profundity of the mine was almost a mile.


Synonymsdeepness, profundity


Broader (hypernym)deepness, depth


Narrower (hyponym)bottomlessness


Antonymsshallowness

5. profoundness (attribute) intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc


SamplesThe depth of my feeling.
The profoundness of the silence.


Synonymsprofundity


Broader (hypernym)depth


Antonymsshallowness, superficiality









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