profoundness
/profoundness/
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Definition
- Noun:
- Intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight: The quality of having or showing great understanding, wisdom, or insight into complex ideas or subjects.
- The quality of being physically deep: The state of having great depth or extent downward, inward, or backward.
- The quality of being very great, intense, or extreme: The state of being of a very high degree or intensity, often in an abstract sense.
Examples of Usage
- Intellectual/Emotional Depth:
- The profoundness of her philosophical essays challenged readers for generations.
- He spoke with a profoundness that moved the entire audience.
- Physical Depth:
- Engineers measured the profoundness of the newly discovered underwater canyon.
- Extreme Degree:
- The profoundness of his grief was evident to everyone who knew him.
- I was struck by the profoundness of my own ignorance on the subject.
Advanced Usage
- "Profoundness of thought": Refers to the depth and seriousness of one's thinking.
- The book is celebrated for the profoundness of its thought.
- "Profoundness of feeling": Indicates the intensity and depth of an emotion.
- Her poetry captures the profoundness of feeling associated with loss.
Variants and Related Words
- Profound (adj): Having deep insight or meaning; very great or intense.
- a profound thinker; a profound silence
- Profundity (n): A synonym for profoundness, often used interchangeably, especially regarding intellectual depth or intensity.
- the profundity of the ocean; the profundity of his remarks
Synonyms
- Depth: The quality of being deep, either physically or intellectually.
- Insightfulness: The capacity to gain an accurate and deep understanding.
- Wisdom: The quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment.
- Intensity: Exceptionally great concentration, power, or force.
Antonyms
- Superficiality: Lack of depth of character, insight, or meaning.
- Shallowness: The quality of lacking physical or intellectual depth.
- Triviality: The state of being of little value or importance.
Related Phrases and Idioms
- "To plumb the profoundness of": To explore or understand the full depth of something.
- The documentary seeks to plumb the profoundness of the human psyche.
- "A profoundness of silence": An intense, deep, and meaningful quiet.
- A profoundness of silence fell over the crowd after the announcement.
Noun
- intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc
- the depth of my feeling
- the profoundness of the silence
- the quality of being physically deep
- the profundity of the mine was almost a mile
- the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
- wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
- the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs
- extremeness of degree
- the profoundness of his ignorance