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 is also a reason we regret the lack of profundity and incisiveness in Hu Shi's articles while appreciating his crystal clarity and eloquence.
  这也是我们在欣赏胡适文章之清朗、畅达的同时，对其不够深邃、尖锐略表遗憾的缘故。
• 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。
• "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。
• We present profundity with details, seek for perfection and surpass selfhood.
  我们以细节体现深度，追求完美，超越自我。
• 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 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。
• 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
• His passion for peace grew in intensity and profundity.
  他对和平的热情日益强烈和深厚。
• It evokes thoughtful smiles by its profundity.
  它以其深度引起会心的微笑。
• 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。