Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Depth; profundity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
profound ;profundity
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
- noun extremeness of degree
- noun the quality of being physically deep
- noun intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc
- noun the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
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Examples
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21CM: There were no rules re: "profoundness", only honesty and I couldn't agree more with your comment.
Fill in the Blank Jessica 2008
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"It (the race welfare) alone corresponds to the profoundness with which it is felt, to the seriousness with which it appears, to the importance which it attributes even to the trifling details of its sphere and occasion."
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Because he understood the profoundness of losing the war.
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They learn how to game the system, which is not hard, because our whole elementary and secondary education system outside of the Advanced Placements (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) test proficiency of regurgitation, not the profoundness of our thinking, or really our ability to think and reason well.
Brian Ross: Rather than Race to the Top, We Should Have Started Fixing Education There 2010
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Because he understood the profoundness of losing the war.
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They learn how to game the system, which is not hard, because our whole elementary and secondary education system outside of the Advanced Placements (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) test proficiency of regurgitation, not the profoundness of our thinking, or really our ability to think and reason well.
Brian Ross: Rather than Race to the Top, We Should Have Started Fixing Education There Brian Ross 2010
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They learn how to game the system, which is not hard, because our whole elementary and secondary education system outside of the Advanced Placements (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) test proficiency of regurgitation, not the profoundness of our thinking, or really our ability to think and reason well.
Brian Ross: Rather than Race to the Top, We Should Have Started Fixing Education There 2010
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They learn how to game the system, which is not hard, because our whole elementary and secondary education system outside of the Advanced Placements (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) test proficiency of regurgitation, not the profoundness of our thinking, or really our ability to think and reason well.
Brian Ross: Rather than Race to the Top, We Should Have Started Fixing Education There 2010
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They learn how to game the system, which is not hard, because our whole elementary and secondary education system outside of the Advanced Placements (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) test proficiency of regurgitation, not the profoundness of our thinking, or really our ability to think and reason well.
Brian Ross: Rather than Race to the Top, We Should Have Started Fixing Education There Brian Ross 2010
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They learn how to game the system, which is not hard, because our whole elementary and secondary education system outside of the Advanced Placements (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) test proficiency of regurgitation, not the profoundness of our thinking, or really our ability to think and reason well.
Brian Ross: Rather than Race to the Top, We Should Have Started Fixing Education There 2010
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