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

• 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。
• I don't doubt the profundity of this wisdom.
  我不怀疑这种智慧的博大精深。
• 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。
• This novel reveals the humanity's complexity and profundity, because it implies the love and resentment, furthermore, the humanity has impacted on the temporal social culture.
  本文揭示了人性的复杂与深刻，在于它所蕴含的爱与恨，而左右着人性的又是当时的社会文明。
• In theory Chinese virtues education or ethical education of Confucianism has features of profundity, inclusion and system consistency, which also meets our common knowledge and experience.
  中华美德教育或儒家伦理教育在理论上具有深刻性、涵盖性与圆融一致性，且符合人的常识经验。
• 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。
• It evokes thoughtful smiles by its profundity.
  它以其深度引起会心的微笑。
• 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。
• The phenomenon of outsourcing is not appearing by accident, and it has profundity causes.
  资源外包的产生绝不是偶然的，而是具有深刻的动因。
• But with quick development of economy, city underlying surface is changing profundity, too.
  城市下垫面是人类赖以生存和发展的基础，同时也是城市土地利用的总和。