from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
profoundness
n 1: extremeness of degree; "the profoundness of his ignorance"
2: wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the
anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the
native proverbs" [syn: {reconditeness}, {abstruseness},
{abstrusity}, {profoundness}, {profundity}]
3: the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas [syn:
{astuteness}, {profundity}, {profoundness}, {depth},
{deepness}]
4: the quality of being physically deep; "the profundity of the
mine was almost a mile" [syn: {deepness}, {profundity},
{profoundness}] [ant: {shallowness}]
5: intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc;
"the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence"
[syn: {profundity}, {profoundness}] [ant: {shallowness},
{superficiality}]