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

• It is true that among her contemporaries she passed for a young woman of profundity.
  确实，在她的同时代人中，她被公认是一个深奥莫测的少女。
• They root from the most part of human being's activities, pursuing the nature of profundity, universalism, everlasting and full of meaning.
  它们源于人类活动最高尚的部分，都追求着深刻性、普遍性、永恒和富有意义。
• 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。
• The regional study of geography will give emphasis on creativity and practicability, and the comprehensive study of geography on systematization and profundity.
  地理学的区域性研究更具创造性和实用性，综合性研究更具系统性和深刻性。
• I don't doubt the profundity of this wisdom.
  我不怀疑这种智慧的博大精深。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The speed and profundity of the changes around us.
  我们周围变化的迅速和深刻。