profoundness

2 definitions found

profoundness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Profoundness \Pro*found"ness\, n.
     The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth.
     --Hooker.
     [1913 Webster]

profoundness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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, profoundness, profundity]
      3: the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas [syn:
         astuteness, profundity, profoundness, depth,
         deepness]
      4: the quality of being physically deep; "the profundity of the
         mine was almost a mile" [syn: deepness, profundity,
         profoundness] [ant: shallowness]
      5: intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc;
         "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence"
         [syn: profundity, profoundness] [ant: shallowness,
         superficiality]