deepness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
  2. noun the quality of being physically deep
  3. noun the extent downward or backward or inward

Etymology

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”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

astuteness, profundity, profoundness, depth

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