profundity

英 [prəˈfʌndəti]

美 [prəˈfʌndəti]

n.  (理解或处理问题的)深刻性，彻底性; 巨大; 严重; 强大; 深奥的话; 意味深长的话

复数：profundities　

BNC.33948 / COCA.26863

牛津词典

noun

• （理解或处理问题的）深刻性，彻底性
  the quality of understanding or dealing with a subject at a very serious level
  1. He lacked profundity and analytical precision.
     他缺乏深度和分析的精确性。
• 巨大；严重；强大
  the quality of being very great, serious or powerful
  1. the profundity of her misery
     她的苦难之深
• 深奥的话；意味深长的话
  something that sb says that shows great understanding
  1. His profundities were lost on the young audience.
     他语重心长，但年轻的听众却没有领会。

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 深奥；深刻
  Profundityis great intellectual depth and understanding.
  1. The profundity of this book is achieved with breathtaking lightness.
     这本书极为深入浅出。
• N-UNCOUNT （情感、经历、变化等的）深厚，深刻，深切
  If you refer to theprofundity ofa feeling, experience, or change, you mean that it is deep, powerful, or serious.
  1. ...the profundity of the structural problems besetting the country.
     困扰这个国家的严重的结构性问题
• N-COUNT 深刻的话语；深奥的话语
  Aprofundityis a remark that shows great intellectual depth and understanding.
  1. His work is full of profundities and asides concerning the human condition.
     他的作品充满了有关人类境况的深邃见解和话外音。

英英释义

noun

• intellectual depth
  1. the depth of my feeling
  2. the profoundness of the silence
  Synonym:profoundness
• the quality of being physically deep
  1. the profundity of the mine was almost a mile
  Synonym:deepnessprofoundness
• the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
  Synonym:astutenessprofoundnessdepthdeepness
• wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
  1. the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs
  Synonym:reconditenessabstrusenessabstrusityprofoundness

双语例句

• He refers to research that, while attempting to solve problems and drive industry, has achieved some crooked profundity while generating the added bonus of making people smile.
  他指出，这些研究在试图解决问题，带动产业发展的同时，获得了某种出人意料的深度，还产生了一个额外的好处：给人们带来会心一笑。
• The mind is attracted to complex issues which resound with profundity and emotional depth.
  思维会受到复杂课题的吸引，这些课题还跟深邃的情绪起回响。
• This is also a reason we regret the lack of profundity and incisiveness in Hu Shi's articles while appreciating his crystal clarity and eloquence.
  这也是我们在欣赏胡适文章之清朗、畅达的同时，对其不够深邃、尖锐略表遗憾的缘故。
• This times is peripheral, you can choose only with peripheral right peripheral, be opposite with profundity peripheral it is otiose.
  这个时代是肤浅的，你只能选择以肤浅对肤浅，以深刻对肤浅是没有用的。
• It's got that kind of air of profundity about it that philosophy's thought to have or aspires to have.
  带有某种哲学思想或追求，所具有的深刻性。
• Vast stretches of oceans appeal to us much the rather because their profundity is difficult of access.
  辽阔的海洋因其深奥难以理解才更引起我们的浓厚兴趣。
• His passion for peace grew in intensity and profundity.
  他对和平的热情日益强烈和深厚。
• Although it has fused itself into the study of writing and thinking, its theoretical profundity surpasses the science of writing and thinking. This revelation shows that he has surpassed his earlier prose in cultural persentation.
  它融汇了写作学和思维学的理论，但它的理论深度和广度包孕和超过了写作和思维学。悖论的反映使得他的文化散文表现出对以往的写作的超越性。
• He builds an Afrikaner mythology of mundanity that echoes a realism of social profundity.
  他建立一个世俗的南非荷神话是呼应了深刻的社会现实主义。
• Study motivation for primary teachers in post-employment concludes four marked features such as internality, practicability, diversity and profundity.
  小学教师职后学习动机具有内在性、实用性、多样性和深刻性四个显著特征。