profoundness

Quality of significance

Profoundness is the quality of being profound—having great depth, intensity, or significance.

It describes intellectual depth the profoundness of his philosophical insights, emotional intensity the profoundness of her grief, or thoroughness the profoundness of the changes.

The word is formal and somewhat stiff; profundity is more common in careful writing.

depth

deepness

Measure of depth

immeasurable · boundless · vastness · infinite · abyss · chasm · dimensionality · extent · scope · breadth

wisdom

sagacity

Penetrating mental acuity

knowledge · prudence · understanding · judgment · sapience · learnedness · scholarship · intellect · discernment · astuteness

insight

epiphany

Sudden profound insight

perception · clarity · discernment · awareness · comprehension · perspicacity · intuition · penetrating · illumination · breakthrough

intensity

emotional depth

Richness of inner feeling

heartfelt · soulful · affecting · powerful · overwhelming · fervor · passion · sincerity · earnestness · resonance

Opposites
intellectual depth

profoundnessshallowness

Lack of depth

superficiality · vacuity · vapidity · simplemindedness · superficialness

emotional or experiential depth

profoundnessshallowness

Lack of depth

superficiality · hollowness · triviality · flippancy · frivolity

seriousness of treatment

profoundnessflippancy

Frivolous lack of seriousness

frivolity · superficiality · glibness · facetiousness · levity

Family

profound, profundity, profundities

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