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English noun: profoundness | |||
| 1. | profoundness (state) extremeness of degree | ||
| Samples | The profoundness of his ignorance. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | ultimacy, ultimateness | ||
| 2. | profoundness (cognition) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | ||
| Samples | The anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs. | ||
| Synonyms | abstruseness, abstrusity, profundity, reconditeness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | wisdom | ||
| 3. | profoundness (cognition) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | ||
| Synonyms | astuteness, deepness, depth, profundity | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | sapience, wisdom | ||
| 4. | profoundness (attribute) the quality of being physically deep | ||
| Samples | The profundity of the mine was almost a mile. | ||
| Synonyms | deepness, profundity | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | deepness, depth | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bottomlessness | ||
| Antonyms | shallowness | ||
| 5. | profoundness (attribute) intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc | ||
| Samples | The depth of my feeling. The profoundness of the silence. | ||
| Synonyms | profundity | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | depth | ||
| Antonyms | shallowness, superficiality | ||
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