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Definition: Profoundness |
ProfoundnessNoun1. Wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs". 2. The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas. 3. The quality of being physically deep: "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile". 4. Intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc: "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "profoundness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references) |
Synonyms: ProfoundnessSynonyms: abstruseness (n), abstrusity (n), astuteness (n), deepness (n), depth (n), profundity (n), reconditeness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: shallowness (n), superficiality (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Profoundness |
| English words defined with "profoundness": profundity. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Charles Caleb Colton | Mystery is not profoundness. |
Lao-tzu | Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Profoundness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Profoundness" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "profoundness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | thellësi (bowels, deepness, depth, distance, intensity, pregnancy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عمق (deepen, depth, heighten, profoundly, profundity, spit), صعوبة (awkwardness, difficulty, hardness, onerousness, quandary, stiffness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | syvämietteisyys (depth of thought). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | profondeur (profundity), difficulté (problem). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Tiefsinn (dejection, depression, gloom, melancholy, pensiveness, profundity), Tiefe (abyss, chasm, deepness, depth, depths, direness, gravity, gulf, heaviness, intenseness, intensity, lowness, precipice, profoundly, profundity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βαθύτησ (depth, profundity), βαθύτητα (depth, profundity), εμβρίθεια (profundity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mélység (abyss, chasm, deep, deepness, depth, depths, drop-off, gulf, precipice, profound, profundity, the deep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ofoundnesspray profunzime (depth, profound), adâncime (abyss, bottom, deep, deepness, depth, height, horizon, pregnancy, profound, profundity, wisdom). (various references) глубина (deep, deepness, depth, profound, profundity, thoroughness). (various references) dubina (bottom, deep, deepness, depth, depths, profundity). (various references) profundidad (deepness, depth, profundity). (various references) djupsinnighet, djupsinne (depth, profundity), djup (bathos, deep, deepness, dept, depth, depths, full, fullness, fulness, great, intimate, keen, low, profound). (various references) hikmet (gnome, mystery, profundity, reason, the divine wisdom, wisdom), derinlik (abyss, deep, deepness, depth, perspective, profundity). (various references) глибина (bathos, deep, deepness, depth, profound, profundity). (various references) sự xâu sắc (profundity), sự thâm thuý (profundity), sự sâu (profundity), bề dâu sự sâu xa (profundity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "profoundness": profoundnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "profoundness" (pronounced 'Pro*found"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-n-n-o-o-p-r-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: nonprossed. | |
-3 letters: ponderous, profounds, roundness, sponsored, unpersons. | |
-4 letters: doofuses, dourness, fenurons, fondness, founders, frondose, nonusers, poorness, pounders, profound, pronouns, refounds, resounds, responds, snoopers, sounders, spoofers, sundrops, sunproof, sunroofs, unperson, unroofed. | |
-5 letters: dousers, dunness, enduros, fenuron, fondues, fordoes, fordone, founder, neurons, nonpros, nonuser, nonuses, noosers, onerous, operons, persons, ponders, poseurs, pounder, prenoon, profess, profuse, pronoun. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-n-n-o-o-p-r-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: profoundnesses. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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