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Meaning of PROFOUNDNESS

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence"
  2. [n]  the quality of being physically deep; "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile"
  3. [n]  the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
  4. [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
 
 Antonyms: shallowness, superficiality
 
 See Also: bottomlessness, depth, sapience, wisdom

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Pro*found"ness\, n.
The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth.
--Hooker.
 
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