PROFOUNDNESS as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • intellectual depth
    • penetrating knowledge
    • keen insight
    • etc
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • the depth of my feeling
    • the profoundness of the silence
    Hypernyms(s) profoundness is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower Antonym(s)
  2. Meaning
    • the quality of being physically deep
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • the profundity of the mine was almost a mile
    Hypernyms(s) profoundness is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower Antonym(s) Hyponym(s)
  3. Meaning
    • the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
    Synonym(s) Hypernyms(s) profoundness is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
  4. Meaning
    • wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs
    Hypernyms(s) profoundness is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower