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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (5)

1. extremeness of degree;
- Example: "the profoundness of his ignorance"

2. wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound;
- Example: "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;
- Example: "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile"
[syn: deepness, profundity, profoundness]

5. intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc;
- Example: "the depth of my feeling"
- Example: "the profoundness of the silence"
[syn: profundity, profoundness]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Profoundness \Pro*found"ness\, n. The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
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]