depth

Nouns

  • (n) the extent downward or backward or inward
    • the depth of the water
    • depth of a shelf
    • depth of a closet
    deepness,
  • (n) degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
  • (n) (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part
    • from the depths of darkest Africa
    • signals received from the depths of space
  • (n) (usually plural) a low moral state
    • he had sunk to the depths of addiction
  • (n) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas deepness, astuteness, profoundness, profundity,
  • (n) the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense
    • the depth of his breathing
    • the depth of his sighs
    • the depth of his emotion

Synonyms

deepness astuteness profoundness profundity

Words of close approximity

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