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DEEPNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A low pitch that is loud and voluminous
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("deepness" is a kind of...):
low frequency; low pitch (a pitch that is perceived as below other pitches)
Derivation:
deep (having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The extent downward or backward or inward
Example:
depth of a closet
Synonyms:
deepness; depth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("deepness" is a kind of...):
extent (the distance or area or volume over which something extends)
Attribute:
deep (having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination)
shallow (lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center)
deep (relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply)
shallow (not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deepness"):
deepness; profoundness; profundity (the quality of being physically deep)
draft; draught (the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded))
penetration (the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target))
sounding (a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line)
shallowness (the quality of lacking physical depth)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The quality of being physically deep
Example:
the profundity of the mine was almost a mile
Synonyms:
deepness; profoundness; profundity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("deepness" is a kind of...):
deepness; depth (the extent downward or backward or inward)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deepness"):
bottomlessness (the property of being very deep; without limit)
Antonym:
shallowness (the quality of lacking physical depth)
Derivation:
deep (having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination)
deep (relatively thick from top to bottom)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
Synonyms:
astuteness; deepness; depth; profoundness; profundity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("deepness" is a kind of...):
sapience; wisdom (ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight)
Derivation:
deep (marked by depth of thinking)
