profoundness Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun extremeness of degree
   
   • the profoundness of his ignorance
2. noun wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
   reconditeness; abstruseness; abstrusity; profundity.
   
   • the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs
3. noun the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
   depth; profundity; astuteness; deepness.
   
4. noun the quality of being physically deep
   profundity; deepness.
   
   • the profundity of the mine was almost a mile
5. noun intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc
   profundity.
   
   • the depth of my feeling
   • the profoundness of the silence

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