PROFOUNDNESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does profoundness mean?
• PROFOUNDNESS (noun)
The noun PROFOUNDNESS has 5 senses:
1. extremeness of degree
2. wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
3. the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
4. the quality of being physically deep
5. intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc
Familiarity information: PROFOUNDNESS used as a noun is common.
Dictionary entry details
• PROFOUNDNESS (noun)
Meaning:
Extremeness of degree
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Context example:
the profoundness of his ignorance
Hypernyms ("profoundness" is a kind of...):
ultimacy; ultimateness (the state or degree of being ultimate; the final or most extreme in degree or size or time or distance,)
Meaning:
Wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
abstrusity; profundity; reconditeness; abstruseness; profoundness
Context example:
the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs
Hypernyms ("profoundness" is a kind of...):
wisdom (accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment)
Meaning:
The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
deepness; astuteness; profundity; profoundness; depth
Hypernyms ("profoundness" is a kind of...):
sapience; wisdom (ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight)
Meaning:
The quality of being physically deep
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
deepness; profoundness; profundity
Context example:
the profundity of the mine was almost a mile
Hypernyms ("profoundness" is a kind of...):
depth (extent downward or backward or inward)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "profoundness"):
bottomlessness (the property of being very deep; without limit)
Meaning:
Intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
profundity; profoundness
Context examples:
the depth of my feeling / the profoundness of the silence
Hypernyms ("profoundness" is a kind of...):
depth (degree of psychological or intellectual profundity)
