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PROFUNDITY
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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 ("profundity" is a kind of...):
depth (degree of psychological or intellectual profundity)
Antonym:
superficiality (lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling)
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 ("profundity" is a kind of...):
deepness; depth (the extent downward or backward or inward)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "profundity"):
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 ("profundity" 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 ("profundity" 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)
