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

• 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。
• 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。
• This times is peripheral, you can choose only with peripheral right peripheral, be opposite with profundity peripheral it is otiose.
  这个时代是肤浅的，你只能选择以肤浅对肤浅，以深刻对肤浅是没有用的。
• 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。
• Study motivation for primary teachers in post-employment concludes four marked features such as internality, practicability, diversity and profundity.
  小学教师职后学习动机具有内在性、实用性、多样性和深刻性四个显著特征。
• His passion for peace grew in intensity and profundity.
  他对和平的热情日益强烈和深厚。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It evokes thoughtful smiles by its profundity.
  它以其深度引起会心的微笑。