profoundness
- a word derived from profound.
Example Sentences
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“This inheritance of ‘Great Russia,’ Russian culture is of a beauty and profoundness that is great,” Francis said Monday.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2023
And Noah Wolfe’s Henrik is so floridly agonized that it’s hard to see how his profoundness may yet be appealing.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
Price had not read King’s speeches or fathomed the profoundness of nonviolence, but he was a man and he stood, like most men do, in awe of men who have conquered fear.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2018
Do I have to say that none of these fantasies have any pretension to profoundness?
From Time Magazine Archive
There is a man in England who with sufficient plainness and sufficient profoundness is addressing himself to life, and daring to chant his own times and social circumstances, who ought to become known to America.
From The Cutting of an Agate by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
