Noun profoundness has 4 senses
  1. reconditeness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, profundity - wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs"
    --1 is a kind of wisdom
  2. astuteness, profundity, profoundness, depth - the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
    --2 is a kind of wisdom, sapience
  3. deepness, profundity, profoundness - the quality of being physically deep; "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile"
    --3 is a kind of depth
    --3 has particulars: bottomlessness
  4. profundity, profoundness - intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence"
    --4 is a kind of depth
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