deepness - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Middle English depnesse, from Old English dēopnes (“deepness; depth; an abyss”), from Proto-West Germanic *deupnassī, equivalent to deep + -ness. Cognate with German Low German Deepnis (“deepness, depth”).
deepness (usually uncountable, plural deepnesses)
- The state or quality of being deep (either physically or metaphorically)
- Synonyms: depth, profoundness, profundity
- Antonym: shallowness
- Coordinate term: pseudoprofundity