profoundness
Profoundness is the characteristic of being full of meaningful insight. The profoundness of your favorite movie’s final moments may make you cry every single time you watch it.
Profoundness and profound come from the Latin root profundus, which means “deep, vast,” and also “obscure.” This sense of obscurity, or being hard to understand, is evident in philosophical profoundness — you know it’s deep and important, but you’re not sure you totally get it. Another kind of profoundness is intensity. After you wake from a terrible nightmare, the profoundness of your fear may keep you frozen in terror for several minutes.
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the quality of being physically deep
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synonyms:
deepness, profundity-
Antonyms:
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shallowness
the quality of lacking physical depth
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types:
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bottomlessness
the property of being very deep; without limit
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shallowness
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extremeness of degree
“the
profoundness of his ignorance”-
type of:
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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”
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ultimacy, ultimateness
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intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc
“the
profoundness of the silence”-
synonyms:
profundity-
Antonyms:
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shallowness, superficiality
lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling
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type of:
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depth
degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
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shallowness, superficiality
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the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
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synonyms:
astuteness, deepness, depth, profundity -
wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
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synonyms:
abstruseness, abstrusity, profundity, reconditeness-
type of:
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wisdom
accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
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wisdom