NOUN
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the quality of being physically deep
the profundity of the mine was almost a mile -
extremeness of degree
the profoundness of his ignorance -
wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs -
intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc
the depth of my feeling
the profoundness of the silence - the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
How To Use profoundness In A Sentence
- Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu
- He had pointed this out to her quite a while ago, marveling over the symbolism and profoundness of such a matching.
- I nod in affirmation, holding my breath, expecting the world to wobble off of its axis for a second because of the profoundness of what I have just admitted.
- She didn't know what real happiness was, just as she had not known the profoundness of true sadness.
- Because he understood the profoundness of losing the war. The Wars of John McCain
- Or Hilary is said of hilum, which is to say dark matter, for he had in his dictes great obscurity and profoundness. The Golden Legend, vol. 2
- The sea unquestionably remains a place of endless mystery and fascination, as it has been since the first humans stood on its shore and tried to grasp its profoundness.
- You can appreciate and understand its profoundness only by visiting it once.
- We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of profoundness and discipline.
- And Clyde, as instantly sensing the profoundness of his own failure, his own cowardice or inadequateness for such an occasion, as instantly yielding to a tide of submerged hate, not only for himself, but An American Tragedy
