depth

n 1: extent downward or backward or inward: "the depth of the

water"; "depth of a shelf"; "depth of a closet"

2: degree of psychological or intellectual depth

3: (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part; "from the

depths of darkest Africa"; "signals received from the

depths of space"

4: (usually plural) a low moral state; "he had sunk to the

depths of addiction"

5: the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

[syn: {astuteness}, {profundity}, {profoundness}]