Definition

1. Noun:
   • The quality or state of being deep: This refers to a significant extent, measurement, or intensity in a downward, inward, or backward direction.
   • Profoundness or intensity: This refers to a great degree of seriousness, complexity, or emotional intensity, often in abstract contexts like thought or feeling.

Usage

• Physical Depth: Used to describe a measurable distance from the top or front to the bottom or back of something.
  • The deepness of the ocean at that point is over two miles.
• Abstract/Figurative Depth: Used to describe the complexity, seriousness, or intensity of non-physical things like thoughts, emotions, or colors.
  • I was struck by the deepness of her understanding of the subject.

Examples

• Physical Context:
  • The deepness of the canyon is breathtaking.
  • We measured the deepness of the snow.
• Abstract Context:
  • The deepness of his sorrow was evident.
  • The deepness of the blue in the painting is remarkable.

Advanced Usage

• "Deepness of field": A term in photography and cinematography referring to the range of distance within a scene that appears acceptably sharp.
  • The photographer used a narrow aperture to achieve a greater deepness of field.
• "Deepness of thought": Refers to profound, serious, or complex thinking.
  • Her essays are known for their intellectual deepness.

Variants and Related Words

• Deep (adj): Extending far down, inwards, or back; of intense or extreme degree.
  • a deep well, deep red, a deep sleep
• Deeply (adv): To a great depth; profoundly or intensely.
  • breathe deeply, deeply concerned
• Depth (n): A more common synonym for the measurement of deepness or the quality of being deep.
  • the depth of the pool, the depth of her knowledge

Synonyms

• Profundity: Deep insight; great depth of knowledge or thought.
• Intensity: Exceptionally great concentration, power, or force.
• Extent: The degree to which something has spread; the size or scale of something.

Antonyms

• Shallowness: Lack of depth, either physical or intellectual/emotional.
• Superficiality: Lack of depth of character, thought, or meaning.

Related Phrases

• In the deepness of (something): Used to emphasize being fully within a profound state, often time or feeling.
  • In the deepness of winter, the lake freezes over.
  • He found solace in the deepness of the forest.

Noun

1. a low pitch that is loud and voluminous
2. the extent downward or backward or inward
   • the depth of the water
   • depth of a shelf
   • depth of a closet
3. the quality of being physically deep
   • the profundity of the mine was almost a mile
4. the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas