Profound vs Insight - What's the difference?
profound | insight |
Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to great depth; deep.
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Very deep; very serious
Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough; as, a profound investigation or treatise; a profound scholar; profound wisdom.
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Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading; overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a profound sleep.
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Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow.
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(obsolete) The deep; the sea; the ocean.
(obsolete) An abyss.
(obsolete) To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.
(obsolete) To dive deeply; to penetrate.
A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; frequently used with into.
* 1980 , Carl Sagan, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage ,
Power of acute observation and deduction; penetration; discernment; perception.
(marketing) Knowledge (usually derived from consumer understanding) that a company applies in order to make a product or brand perform better and be more appealing to customers
The act or result of apprehending the inner nature of things or of seeing intuitively
(artificial intelligence) An extended understanding of a subject resulting from identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context, or scenario.
As nouns the difference between profound and insight
is that profound is (obsolete) the deep; the sea; the ocean while insight is a sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; frequently used with into.As an adjective profound
is descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to great depth; deep.As a verb profound
is (obsolete) to cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.profound
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A gulf profound
- Profound sciatica
- Of the profound corruption of this class there can be no doubt.
- What humble gestures! What profound reverence!
Noun
(-)- God in the fathomless profound / Hath all this choice commanders drowned. Sandys .
- (Milton)
Verb
(en verb)- (Sir Thomas Browne)
insight
English
Noun
(en noun)- The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.