Crossword clues for deepness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deepness \Deep"ness\, n.
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The state or quality of being deep, profound, mysterious, secretive, etc.; depth; profundity; -- opposed to shallowness.
Because they had no deepness of earth.
--Matt. xiii. 5. Craft; insidiousness. [R.]
--J. Gregory.
Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being deep (either physically or metaphorically)
WordNet
n. the quality of being physically deep; "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile" [syn: profundity, profoundness] [ant: shallowness]
a low pitch that is loud and voluminous
Wikipedia
"Deepness" is the twenty-seventh single by Japanese recording artist Misia. The music video was filmed in Mongolia.
Usage examples of "deepness".
The Royal Family held tight to this land and the deepness beneath the mountain, had held it since they were nothing more than an upstart dukedom forty Darks ago.
One philosopher survived so long that his last scrawl was taken for insanity or metaphor by those who found his words cut into stone above their deepness: “and the dry air is turning to frost.
In the bunkers next to the Royal Deepness, perhaps fifty people were still conscious.
He waved Underhill toward the cleft in the rock, and the deepness below.
Sherkaner Underhill was as much the unhinged genius as ever, though the nerve damage he’d suffered in their ad hoc deepness made him seem older than he was.
You want a deepness that endures, a deepness that Spiderkind can depend on?
This seems not different from a preparation for the greatest deepness massacres in history.
Such already existed in the city deepness beneath the old town center—and had existed there for almost twenty generations.
But even that was not officially the beginning of the Dark, though it was a sign that green plants couldn’t grow anymore, that you’d better have your main food supplies in your deepness, and that tuber and grub farms would be all that could sustain you until it came time to retreat beneath the earth.
Any deepness dug here would be a death trap, so warm that the sleepers’ flesh would rot in their shells.
The natural orientation of sensible people must be downward, planning for the safest deepness in which to survive the next Darkness.
He took Spiderness in unthought directions—he saw the deepness in the sky.
Vinge's latest novel, A Deepness in the Sky (a prequel to A Fire Upon the Deep), performs the same trick at considerably longer length.
What's most interesting about A Deepness in the Sky in this context w apart from Vinge's playful inventiveness and the pacing that keeps one on seat-edge -- is how Vinge's scenario neatly encapsulates the dichotomy in sf made clear in Dozois's anthologies.
The deepness of Grimhold seemed to go on forever, far, far into the belly of the mountain.