profoundness meaning and definition

PROFOUNDNESS noun

Definition of profoundness (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"
   • synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profundity, reconditeness
3. the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
   • synonyms: astuteness, deepness, depth, profundity
4. the quality of being physically deep
   • "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile"
   • synonyms: deepness, profundity
   • antonym: shallowness
5. intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc
   • "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence"
   • synonyms: profundity
   • antonym: shallowness