profoundness

pro·found

P0584000 (prə-found′, prō-)adj. pro·found·er, pro·found·est 1. Having, showing, or requiring great insight or understanding: a profound thinker; a profound analysis.2. Deeply felt or held; intense: profound contempt; a profound conviction.3. Thoroughgoing; far-reaching: profound social changes.4. Unqualified or unbroken: a profound silence; profound sleep.5. Situated at, extending to, or coming from a great depth; deep: a profound chasm.

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[Middle English profounde, from Old French profond, deep, from Latin profundus : prō-, before; see pro-¹ + fundus, bottom.]

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pro·found′ly adv.pro·found′ness n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	profoundness - extremeness of degree; "the profoundness of his ignorance"ultimacy, ultimateness - the state or degree of being ultimate; the final or most extreme in degree or size or time or distance, "the ultimacy of these social values"
	2.	profoundness - wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs"abstrusity, profundity, reconditeness, abstrusenesswisdom - accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
	3.	profoundness - the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideasdeepness, astuteness, profundity, depthsapience, wisdom - ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
	4.	profoundness - the quality of being physically deep; "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile"deepness, profunditydepth, deepness - the extent downward or backward or inward; "the depth of the water"; "depth of a shelf"; "depth of a closet"bottomlessness - the property of being very deep; without limit
	5.	profoundness - intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence"profunditydepth - degree of psychological or intellectual profundity

profoundness

nounIntellectual penetration or range:deepness, depth, profundity.