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Depth   /dɛpθ/   Listen
Depth

noun
1.
The extent downward or backward or inward.  Synonym: deepness.  "Depth of a shelf" , "Depth of a closet"
2.
Degree of psychological or intellectual profundity.
3.
(usually plural) the deepest and most remote part.  "Signals received from the depths of space"
4.
(usually plural) a low moral state.
5.
The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas.  Synonyms: astuteness, deepness, profoundness, profundity.
6.
The attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense.  "The depth of his sighs," , "The depth of his emotion"



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"Depth" Quotes from Famous Books



... possible to accommodate himself to the life of a Russian high functionary and courtier under the severe despot Nicholas I, though, to be sure, he always hated that life. For all his flirting with revolutionarism, he never displayed great originality or depth of thought. He was simply an extraordinarily gifted author, a perfect versifier, a wondrous lyrist, and a delicious raconteur, endowed with a grace, ease and power of expression that delighted even the exacting artistic sense of Turgenev. ...
— Best Russian Short Stories • Various
... it would be rash to deny that," said Mr. Randolph. "Daisy, I think I understand you. I do not require so much depth as is necessary for Ransom's understanding to ...
— Melbourne House • Elizabeth Wetherell
... quantities. As a matter of fact, the nature of the food and its quantity controls all the phenomena of life. Some twenty years ago most people lived fairly close to the old physiological quantities, now they have been cut adrift from these and completely unsettled and are floundering out of their depth. A most unsatisfactory, even ...
— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various
... Calcutta the brig reached the island and, at Harry's request, sailed round it, taking soundings very frequently, in order to obtain knowledge of the depth of the water and the nature of the sea bottom. Finally they anchored in the straits between it and the mainland. This varied, in width, from two miles to a quarter of a mile; and the depth of water, at the eastern extremity of the straits, was found ...
— At the Point of the Bayonet - A Tale of the Mahratta War • G. A. Henty
... self-possession during the supper, particularly when tenderly reproving his disciples for petty ambition, or when solemnly dismissing the traitor, or warning Peter of his denials, must not blind us to the depth of the emotion which was stirring his own soul. It is only as we remember his trouble of heart that it is possible justly to value the ministry which in varied ways he rendered to his disciples that night. In the discourses reported ...
— The Life of Jesus of Nazareth • Rush Rhees


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