Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun profoundness

5 senses of profoundness

Sense 1
profoundness -- (extremeness of degree; "the profoundness of his ignorance")
       => ultimacy, ultimateness -- (the state or degree of being ultimate; the final or most extreme in degree or size or time or distance, "the ultimacy of these social values")

Sense 2
reconditeness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, profundity -- (wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs")
       => wisdom -- (accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment)

Sense 3
astuteness, profundity, profoundness, depth, deepness -- (the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas)
       => wisdom, sapience -- (ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight)

Sense 4
deepness, profundity, profoundness -- (the quality of being physically deep; "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile")
       => depth, deepness -- (the extent downward or backward or inward; "the depth of the water"; "depth of a shelf"; "depth of a closet")

Sense 5
profundity, profoundness -- (intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence")
       => depth -- (degree of psychological or intellectual profundity)