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PROFOUNDNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc
Example:
the profoundness of the silence
Synonyms:
profoundness; profundity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("profoundness" is a kind of...):
depth (degree of psychological or intellectual profundity)
Derivation:
profound (showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being physically deep
Example:
the profundity of the mine was almost a mile
Synonyms:
deepness; profoundness; profundity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("profoundness" is a kind of...):
deepness; depth (the 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)
Derivation:
profound (situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
Synonyms:
astuteness; deepness; depth; profoundness; profundity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("profoundness" is a kind of...):
sapience; wisdom (ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight)
Derivation:
profound (showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
Example:
the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs
Synonyms:
abstruseness; abstrusity; profoundness; profundity; reconditeness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("profoundness" is a kind of...):
wisdom (accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment)
Derivation:
profound (far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Extremeness of degree
Example:
the profoundness of his ignorance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
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)
Derivation:
profound ((of sleep) deep and complete)
profound (coming from deep within one)
profound (of the greatest intensity; complete)
profound (showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth)
