profoundness

noun

1. extremeness of degree

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the profoundness of his ignorance

• Derivationally related forms: ↑profound

• Hypernyms: ↑ultimacy, ↑ultimateness

2. the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

• Syn: ↑astuteness, ↑profundity, ↑depth, ↑deepness

• Derivationally related forms: ↑deep (for: ↑deepness), ↑profound, ↑profound (for: ↑profundity)

• Hypernyms: ↑wisdom, ↑sapience

3. wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound

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the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs

• Syn: ↑reconditeness, ↑abstruseness, ↑abstrusity, ↑profundity

• Derivationally related forms: ↑profound (for: ↑profundity), ↑profound, ↑abstruse (for: ↑abstrusity), ↑abstruse (for: ↑abstruseness)

• Hypernyms: ↑wisdom

4. the quality of being physically deep

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the profundity of the mine was almost a mile

• Syn: ↑deepness, ↑profundity

• Ant: ↑shallowness (for: ↑deepness)

• Derivationally related forms: ↑profound, ↑profound (for: ↑profundity), ↑deep (for: ↑deepness)

• Hypernyms: ↑depth, ↑deepness

• Hyponyms: ↑bottomlessness

5. intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc

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the depth of my feeling

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the profoundness of the silence

• Syn: ↑profundity

• Ant: ↑superficiality (for: ↑profundity)

• Derivationally related forms: ↑profound, ↑profound (for: ↑profundity)

• Hypernyms: ↑depth