depth

Meanings

Plural: depths

Noun

• the extent downward or backward or inward
  • "the depth of the water"
  • "depth of a shelf"
  • "depth of a closet"
• degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
• (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part
  • "from the depths of darkest Africa"
  • "signals received from the depths of space"
• (usually plural) a low moral state
  • "he had sunk to the depths of addiction"
• the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
• 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"
• the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep
• the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet
• the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.
• lowness
• the total palette of available colors
• the property of appearing three-dimensional
• the deepest part (usually of a body of water)
• a very remote part.
• the most severe part
• the number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content
• a pair of toothed wheels which work together
• the perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface
• the lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values
• A set of more than one ciphertext enciphered with the same key.
• An invariant of rings and modules, encoding information about dimensionality; see Depth (ring theory).

Synonyms

abyss, astuteness, bathos, bottom, deepness, lowness, nadir, profoundness, profundity

Related Words

deep