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Profoundness Common

Origin: Germanic Old English suffix

Profoundness has 6 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
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"

3

the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

4

the quality of being physically deep

"the profundity of the mine was almost a mile"

5

intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc

"the depth of my feeling"

"the profoundness of the silence"

6

The quality of being profound; profundity

Example Sentences
"the profoundness of his ignorance" noun
"the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs" noun
"the profundity of the mine was almost a mile" noun
"the depth of my feeling" noun
"the profoundness of the silence" noun
See Also
profound profundity
Related Terms
Antonyms
shallowness
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
ultimacy wisdom depth
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
bottomlessness
Rhyming Words
ess 1ess ress ness tess hess kess wess jess fess yess sess less bess cess mess guess 1aess gless cress
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