| NOUN | state | profoundness | extremeness of degree |
|---|---|---|---|
| cognition | profoundness, reconditeness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profundity | wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | |
| cognition | profoundness, astuteness, profundity, depth, deepness | the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | |
| attribute | profoundness, deepness, profundity | the quality of being physically deep | |
| attribute | profoundness, profundity | intellectual depth |
| Meaning | Extremeness of degree. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "the profoundness of his ignorance" | |
| Broader | ultimacy, ultimateness | The state or degree of being ultimate |
| Adjectives | profound | showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth |
| profound | (of sleep) deep and complete | |
| profound | coming from deep within one | |
| profound | of the greatest intensity | |
| Meaning | wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | reconditeness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profundity | |
| Broader | wisdom | accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment |
| Spanish | complejidad, profundidad, reconditez | |
| Catalan | abstrusitat, complexitat | |
| Adjectives | profound | far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something |
| Meaning | The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | astuteness, profundity, depth, deepness | |
| Broader | wisdom, sapience | ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight |
| Spanish | astucia | |
| Catalan | profunditat | |
| Adjectives | profound | showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth |
| Meaning | The quality of being physically deep. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | deepness, profundity | |
| Narrower | bottomlessness | The property of being very deep |
| Broader | depth, deepness | The extent downward or backward or inward |
| Opposite | shallowness | The quality of lacking physical depth |
| Adjectives | profound | situated at or extending to great depth |
| Meaning | Intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "the profoundness of the silence" | |
| Synonym | profundity | |
| Broader | depth | degree of psychological or intellectual profundity |
| Opposite | superficiality, shallowness | lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling |
| Adjectives | profound | showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth |
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