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1. Extremeness of degree
   "the profoundness of his ignorance"
    
2. Wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
   "the anthropologist was impressed by the profoundness of the native proverbs"
   - reconditeness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profundity
    
3. The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
   - astuteness, profundity, depth, deepness
    
4. The quality of being physically deep
   - deepness, profundity
    
5. Intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc
   "the profoundness of the silence"
   - profundity

Derived forms: profoundnesses

See also: profound

Type of: deepness, depth, sapience, ultimacy, ultimateness, wisdom