abyss
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- noun
- /əˈbɪs/
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abismo
- Contemporary humanity is a rope over an abyss with solid ground only ahead and behind.
- look into the abyss
- edge of an abyss
- image of the abyss
Now, the hardest part is not when you're in the abyss to fight and get out.
- Now, the hardest part is not when you're in the abyss to fight and get out.
- It's like it's gazing into the abyss that makes you better.
- I don't want you to have lost the best of yourself in the abyss of the narcissistic relationship.
- That is such a mind F word that you get lost in the abyss of the stonewalling.
- And folks telling a more convenient story than having to look into the abyss or look into themselves.
- There are times when you're staring into that dark abyss and you go, I'm going to take the leap.
- That's, that's the Nietzsche gaze long into the abyss.
- And thus far it's been it is definitely seem like she's staring into an abyss of doom.
- The world is a terrifying, overwhelming, scary place, and the only thing between that child and the abyss is that mother or father.
- But its eyes are completely black and they look, it's looking like you're looking into the abyss of space.
- I made a film, Into the Abyss on death row inmates.
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Jane, I am writing to you across the abyss of the years.
Fiction book (1995) -
The world is a terrifying, overwhelming, scary place, and the only thing between that child and the abyss is that mother or father.
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Your death would leave an abyss in my life.
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Do you see the abyss?
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Do you really want to face the abyss?
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The abyss is of my solitude I am my own significant other.
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To believe that the printing press will once again save capitalism from the abyss is the height of optimism.
Academic text (2011) -
In the depths of the abyss, these faculties meet up together and realize that they need to embrace.
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There are times when you're staring into that dark abyss and you go, I'm going to take the leap.
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Your death would leave an abyss in my life.
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Etymology
The word abyss comes from a Greek word that means 'without bottom', made from the parts a- meaning 'not' and byssos meaning 'bottom'. So an abyss is a pit you cannot see the bottom of, and the word is also used for any situation that feels very deep or impossible to understand.