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PROFOUNDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does profoundness mean? 

PROFOUNDNESS (noun)
  The noun PROFOUNDNESS has 5 senses:

1. extremeness of degreeplay

2. wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profoundplay

3. the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideasplay

4. the quality of being physically deepplay

5. intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etcplay

  Familiarity information: PROFOUNDNESS used as a noun is common.


 Dictionary entry details 


PROFOUNDNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Extremeness of degree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

the profoundness of his ignorance

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)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

abstruseness; abstrusity; profoundness; profundity; reconditeness

Context example:

the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs

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 3

Meaning:

The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

astuteness; deepness; depth; profoundness; profundity

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:

The quality of being physically deep

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

deepness; profoundness; profundity

Context example:

the profundity of the mine was almost a mile

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 5

Meaning:

Intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

profoundness; profundity

Context example:

the profoundness of the silence

Hypernyms ("profoundness" is a kind of...):

depth (degree of psychological or intellectual profundity)

Derivation:

profound (showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth)


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