abime
- noun
- /əˈbim/
- Archaic
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abismo
- The novel explores the characters' struggles as they confront their own abime of guilt and fear.
Examples
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From this perspective, the abime she had failed to see on her wedding day is an anatomical image, a trite little furrow in her sexual garden.
Academic text (1990) -
This scene contains a mise en abime of the apostrophic act that is the narrator's discourse.
Academic text (1994) -
Her recourse to non-sequential diegesis, mise en abime, and overt reflection on literary processes serves to propose the alternative of plurality.
Academic text (1997) -
The climber stood at the edge of the abime, staring into the dark void below.
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In her moment of despair, she felt as if she was sinking into an abime of sadness.
Synonyms
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7.4
A very deep, bottomless hole that feels impossible to reach
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6.3
A very bad and extreme state such as deep sadness or bad actions
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3.9
The lowest parts of a place or a feeling
A very deep hole or chasm that seems bottomless
A very deep hole or empty space used to talk about great emptiness
How Deep
Surface Forms
Etymology
Abime comes from an old word meaning 'bottomless' and is the same root as the common word abyss, so imagine a deep, bottomless pit — that's why abime means a very deep chasm or the deepest feelings.