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Profoundness

noun
1.
Extremeness of degree.
2.
Wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound.  Synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profundity, reconditeness.
3.
The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas.  Synonyms: astuteness, deepness, depth, profundity.
4.
The quality of being physically deep.  Synonyms: deepness, profundity.  Antonym: shallowness.
5.
Intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc.  Synonym: profundity.  "The profoundness of the silence"  Antonym: superficiality.






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"Profoundness" Quotes from Famous Books



... that which is mighty with the people—which he tells us in another place—is wanting. "For this people who knoweth not the law are cursed."' But here he continues, 'for so Solomon saith, "Sapiens corde appellabitur prudens, sed dulcis eloquio majora reperiet;" signifying that profoundness of wisdom will help a man to a name or admiration,'—(it is something more than that which he is proposing as his end)—'but that it is eloquence—which prevails in active life;' so that the very movement which brought philosophy down to earth, and put her upon reforming the ...
— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon



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