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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• "Masses interest does not have bagatelle" the philosophic theory sex that this one axiom has strong shock force and profundity.
  这一至理名言具有强烈的震撼力和深刻的哲理性。
• 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！
• 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。
• 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。