1. (

• profoundness

) extremeness of degree; "the profoundness of his ignorance" ;

2. (

• reconditeness ,
• abstruseness ,
• abstrusity ,
• profoundness ,
• profundity ,

) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs" ;

3. (

• astuteness ,
• profundity ,
• profoundness ,
• depth ,
• deepness

) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas ;

4. (

• deepness ,
• profundity ,
• profoundness

) the quality of being physically deep; "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile" ;

5. (

• profundity ,
• profoundness ,

) intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence" ;