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 , profundity ]

  3. the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

    [ Syn: astuteness , profundity , depth , deepness ]

  4. the quality of being physically deep; the profundity of the mine was almost a mile

    [ Syn: deepness , profundity ]

  5. intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc; the depth of my feeling; the profoundness of the silence

    [ Syn: profundity ]

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