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profoundness |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Profoundness \Pro*found"ness\, n. The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. --Hooker. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: profoundness n 1: wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs" [syn: {reconditeness}, {abstruseness}, {abstrusity}, {profundity}] 2: the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas [syn: {astuteness}, {profundity}, {depth}] 3: the quality of being physically deep: "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile" [syn: {deepness}, {profundity}] [ant: {shallowness}] 4: intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc: "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence" [syn: {profundity}] [ant: {superficiality}]
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