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noun
The state or quality of being deep (either physically or metaphorically)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: depth, profoundness, profundity
Antonyms: shallowness
noun
a low pitch that is loud and voluminous
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: low pitch, low frequency
noun
the extent downward or backward or inward
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: depth
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: extent
Narrower terms: deepness, profundity, profoundness, draft, draught, penetration, sounding, shallowness
noun
the quality of being physically deep
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: profundity, profoundness
Antonyms: shallowness
Broader terms: depth, deepness
Narrower terms: bottomlessness
noun
the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: astuteness, profundity, profoundness, depth
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wisdom, sapience
History
From Middle English depnesse, from Old English dēopnes (“deepness; depth; an abyss”), from Proto-West Germanic *deupnassī, equivalent to deep + -ness. Cognate with German Low German Deepnis (“deepness, depth”).
