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DEPTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("depth" is a kind of...):
degree; grade; level (a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "depth"):
profoundness; profundity (intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc)
shallowness; superficiality (lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense
Example:
the depth of his emotion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("depth" is a kind of...):
attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The extent downward or backward or inward
Example:
depth of a closet
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("depth" 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 "depth"):
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 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 ("depth" is a kind of...):
sapience; wisdom (ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight)
Sense 5
Meaning:
(usually plural) a low moral state
Example:
he had sunk to the depths of addiction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("depth" is a kind of...):
abasement; abjection; degradation (a low or downcast state)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Context examples:
A device, with a light source, which allows the clear visualization of the structure of the eye at any depth, in order to detect abnormalities within the eye.
(Ophthalmoscope, NCI Thesaurus)
I thought you might be a little out of your depth.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The same singularly proud and reserved nature which turned away with disdain from popular notoriety was capable of being moved to its depths by spontaneous wonder and praise from a friend.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I am speaking from the depths of my heart—of my very soul.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The night passed away, and the sun rose from the ocean; my feelings became calmer, if it may be called calmness when the violence of rage sinks into the depths of despair.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It extended on into infinity, and through its golden depths his soul went questing after hers.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The new study tracks changes in snow depth over decades.
(Snow cover on Arctic Sea ice has thinned 30 to 50 percent, NASA)
Water ice isn't expected to be stable at any depth in that area today and any ice deposited there should be long gone.
(A Fresh Look at Older Data Yields a Surprise Near the Martian Equator, NASA)
The prognosis depends on the stage of the tumor, the depth of myometrial wall invasion, and the degree of differentiation.
(Endometrial Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The prognosis depends on the stage of the tumor, the depth of the uterine wall invasion, and the histologic subtype.
(Endometrial Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
