Crossword clues for profoundness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Profoundness \Pro*found"ness\, n.
The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth.
--Hooker.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being profound; profundity
WordNet
n. wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs" [syn: reconditeness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profundity]
the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas [syn: astuteness, profundity, depth]
the quality of being physically deep; "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile" [syn: deepness, profundity] [ant: shallowness]
intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence" [syn: profundity] [ant: superficiality]
Usage examples of "profoundness".
And only then will man be able to follow Christ to the pure blessedness, when he learns to feel that there may be incomprehensible sublimity, loftiness and superiority without perfection: that there may also be faults in the power that has created him and in which he lives: that there are yet an infinite number of higher beings, all above him, and powerful and wise and lofty far beyond his comprehension, and yet all of them humble and faulty and weak in the power of a Most-Sublime, who is equally near to all and penetrates all with equal profoundness.