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DEEPNESS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A low pitch that is loud and voluminousplay

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 inwardplay

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 deepplay

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 ideasplay

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)

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