depth

Noun

• 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 intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

• (usually plural) a low moral state
  • he had sunk to the depths of addiction
    

• (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part
  • from the depths of darkest Africa
    
  • signals received from the depths of space
    

• degree of psychological or intellectual profundity

• the extent downward or backward or inward
  • the depth of the water
    
  • depth of a shelf
    
  • depth of a closet
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  astuteness , profundity , profoundness , deepness