DEEPNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deepness mean? 

• DEEPNESS (noun)
  The noun DEEPNESS has 4 senses:

1. the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

2. the quality of being physically deep

3. the extent downward or backward or inward

4. a low pitch that is loud and voluminous

  Familiarity information: DEEPNESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEEPNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

astuteness; deepness; depth; profoundness; profundity

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being physically deep

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

deepness; profoundness; profundity

Context example:

the profundity of the mine was almost a mile

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 3

Meaning:

The extent downward or backward or inward

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

deepness; depth

Context example:

depth of a closet

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 4

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)

 Context examples 

The extent downward or inward; the perpendicular measurement from the surface downward to determine deepness.

(Depth, NCI Thesaurus)

If you will remember, some of the seed fell upon stony places, where there was not much earth, and forthwith they sprung up because they had no deepness of earth.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)