profoundness

1. 1.

   extremeness of degree

   “the profoundness of his ignorance”

   Broaderultimacy
2. 2.

   wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound

   “the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs”

   Synonymsreconditenessabstrusenessabstrusityprofundity

   Broaderwisdom
3. 3.

   the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

   Synonymsastutenessprofunditydepthdeepness

   Broaderwisdom
4. 4.

   the quality of being physically deep

   “the profundity of the mine was almost a mile”

   Synonymsdeepnessprofundity

   Broaderdepth

   Narrowerbottomlessness
5. 5.

   intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc

   “the depth of my feeling”

   “the profoundness of the silence”

   Synonymsprofundity

   Broaderdepth

Other forms of profoundness

plural

profoundnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about profoundness

What does profoundness mean?

profoundness means "extremeness of degree". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in profoundness?

profoundness has 3 syllables: pro-found-ness. The stress falls on "pro".

What is another word for profoundness?

Close synonyms include reconditeness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profundity, astuteness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is profoundness a common word?

profoundness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.