Profound vs Phenomenon - What's the difference?
profound | phenomenon |
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.
An observable fact or occurrence or a kind of observable fact or occurrence.
* 1900 , , The Making of Religion , ch. 1:
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Appearance; a perceptible aspect of something that is mutable.
* 1662 , Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World , First Day:
A fact or event considered very unusual, curious, or astonishing by those who witness it.
* 1816 , , The Antiquary—Volume I , ch. 18:
A wonderful or very remarkable person or thing.
* 1839 , , Nicholas Nickleby , ch. 23:
* 1888 , , "The Phantom Rickshaw":
An experienced object whose constitution reflects the order and conceptual structure imposed upon it by the human mind (especially by the powers of perception and understanding).
* 1900 , , "Comparison of Some Views of Spencer and Kant," Mind , vol. 9, no. 34, p. 234:
* 1912 , , "Is There a Cognitive Relation?" The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods , vol. 9, no. 9, p. 232:
As nouns the difference between profound and phenomenon
is that profound is (obsolete) the deep; the sea; the ocean while phenomenon is an observable fact or occurrence or a kind of observable fact or occurrence.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)
phenomenon
English
(wikipedia phenomenon)Alternative forms
* phaenomenon, (archaic) * phainomenon * (qualifier)Noun
(phenomena)- The Indians, making a hasty inference from a trivial phenomenon , arrived unawares at a probably correct conclusion.
Ask the Experts: Hurricanes," USA Today , 7 Nov. (retrieved 16 Jan. 2009):
- Hurricanes are a meteorological phenomenon .
- I verily believe that in the Moon there are no rains, for if Clouds should gather in any part thereof, as they do about the Earth, they would thereupon hide from our sight some of those things, which we with the Telescope behold in the Moon, and in a word, would some way or other change its Phœnomenon .
- The phenomenon of a huge blazing fire, upon the opposite bank of the glen, again presented itself to the eye of the watchman. . . . He resolved to examine more nearly the object of his wonder.
- "This, sir," said Mr Vincent Crummles, bringing the maiden forward, "this is the infant phenomenon —Miss Ninetta Crummles."
- But, all the same, you're a phenomenon', and as queer a ' phenomenon as you are a blackguard.
- Every "phenomenon " must be, at any rate, partly subjective or dependent on the subject.
- The Kantian phenomenon is the real as we are compelled to think it.