depth

noun

1. 1

   degree of psychological or intellectual profundity

2. 2

   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

3. 3

   the extent downward or backward or inward

   the depth of the water

   depth of a shelf

4. 4

   the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

5. 5

   (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part

   from the depths of darkest Africa

   signals received from the depths of space

6. 6

   (usually plural) a low moral state

   he had sunk to the depths of addiction