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

• The profundity of this book is achieved with breathtaking lightness.
  这本书极为深入浅出。
• That first book, The Omni-Americans, argued for a wider conception of American identity that acknowledged the centrality and profundity of black culture.
  在这第一本书《综合美国人》（TheOmni-Americans）中，穆瑞提出，美国身份的概念应该更加宽泛，这一概念应该正视黑人文化的中心地位和深度。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• With the development of these technologies, it is possible to expand the research field and profundity of SRB and their research at molecular level.
  这些技术的发展，不断扩展了硫酸盐还原菌的研究领域和深度并使对硫酸盐还原菌在分子水平的研究成为可能。
• 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。
• It evokes thoughtful smiles by its profundity.
  它以其深度引起会心的微笑。
• 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。