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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• The profundity of this book is achieved with breathtaking lightness.
  这本书极为深入浅出。
• It evokes thoughtful smiles by its profundity.
  它以其深度引起会心的微笑。
• 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。
• 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。