noun
- The extent downward or backward or inward.
- usage: "the depth of the water"; "depth of a shelf"; "depth of a closet"
- synonyms: deepness
- Degree of psychological or intellectual profundity.
- Usually plural. ( the deepest and most remote part)
- usage: "from the depths of darkest Africa"; "signals received from the depths of space"
- Usually plural. ( a low moral state)
- usage: "he had sunk to the depths of addiction"
- The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas.
- synonyms: astuteness, profundity, profoundness, deepness
- The attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense.
- usage: "the depth of his breathing"; "the depth of his sighs" "the depth of his emotion"
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