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Profoundness

noun

Extremeness of degree.

Wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound. Synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profundity, reconditeness.

The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas. Synonyms: astuteness, deepness, depth, profundity.

The quality of being physically deep. Synonyms: deepness, profundity.

Intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc. Synonym: profundity. "The profoundness of the silence"

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"Profoundness" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the Principal Systems of the Gnostics,' 'St. Chrysostom and the Church in his Age,' and 'The Spirit of Tertullian,' with an 'Introduction to his Writings.' These treatises are remarkable monuments of diligence, accuracy, profoundness of research and breadth of comprehension, showing the same intellectual qualities which were afterward signally exhibited in the composition of his masterly volumes on the history of the Christian Religion. His ...

— The International Weekly Miscellany, Volume I. No. 8 - Of Literature, Art, and Science, August 19, 1850 • Various

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