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

• 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 speed and profundity of the changes around us.
  我们周围变化的迅速和深刻。
• Slowly I in the heart that is here beautiful the impingement longing for and dreaming of with society this share tide's, the soul I have been pushed forward's profundity, has been submerged most!
  慢慢地，我心里那此美丽的憧憬与梦想随着社会这股浪潮的冲击，被推进了我心灵的最深处，被淹没了！
• The profundity of this book is achieved with breathtaking lightness.
  这本书极为深入浅出。
• 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。
• 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。
• There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exception to rules.
  有些自以为造诣深奥者的惟一凭据，只不过是发现了法则中的例外而已。
• Containing contradiction in unity, blending profundity in plainness& on the images in Frost's poems
  寓矛盾与统一，融深刻于平淡&谈弗氏诗歌的意象
• Don't say that you know nothing about art, perhaps you have no profundity in life.
  别说你不会艺术，或许该说你没有深度。
• I don't doubt the profundity of this wisdom.
  我不怀疑这种智慧的博大精深。