- the extent downward or backward or inward;
"the depth of the water" "depth of a shelf" "depth of a closet"
- degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
- (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part;
"from the depths of darkest Africa" "signals received from the depths of space"
- (usually plural) a low moral state;
"he had sunk to the depths of addiction"
- the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
- 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"
