Meaning of PROFOUNDNESS
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- [n] intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence"
- [n] the quality of being physically deep; "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile"
- [n] the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
- [n] wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs"
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| Synonyms: | | abstruseness, abstrusity, astuteness, deepness, depth, profundity, profundity, reconditeness |
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| Antonyms: | | shallowness, superficiality | |
| See Also: | | bottomlessness, depth, sapience, wisdom | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Pro*found"ness\, n.
The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth.
--Hooker.
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