depth
Nouns
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(n) the extent downward or backward or inward
- the depth of the water
- depth of a shelf
- depth of a closet
- (n) degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
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(n) (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part
- from the depths of darkest Africa
- signals received from the depths of space
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(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,
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(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