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Noun profoundness has 4 senses
- 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
- astuteness, profundity, profoundness, depth - the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
--2 is a kind of wisdom, sapience
- 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
- 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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