Profoundness

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]