abysm
- noun
- /əˈbɪzəm/
- Archaic
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abismo
- As she pondered her deepest fears, she felt as if she were staring into an abysm of uncertainty and doubt.
Our social justice warrior reminds me of the old saying, beware those who look into the abyss because the abyss looks back.
- Our social justice warrior reminds me of the old saying, beware those who look into the abyss because the abyss looks back.
- What the massive sulking earth makes darkness from what numinous abyss it hides, what secrets buried unfold there?
- And I thought, look at Mexico right now, look at Guatemala versus, you know, you know what opens the door to the abyss of real trauma?
- If you extract these principles from our life, love, kindness, care, you create a kind of nihilistic abyss is what emerges.
- But we can be a rope over an abyss, an abyss of meaninglessness, of nothingness, a bridge, a bridge to something else.
- You're kind of like you experienced a sense of utter the abyss, really the abyss of freedom.
- Like I, I think a lot of women have that experience of like, oh, and maybe I don't know, everyone does, but I could just be get lost in the abyss of cryingness.
Examples
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What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?
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Yet despite, or because of the simulacrum's relation to reality, an endless abysm opens up.
Academic text (2001) -
In the Abysm of Time
Academic text (1996) -
Thus, in so profound an abysm, I throw all care... that my adder's sense...
Blog text (7) -
An abysm of immemorial lunacy consisting of fashioned human parts and twisted metal.
Fiction book (2002) -
In the depths of the abyss, the despair of the heart and of the will and the skepticism of reason meet face to face and embrace like brothers.
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And at this time most easy 'tis to do't, when my good stars, that were my former guides, have empty left their orbs, and shot their fires into the abysm of hell.
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What the massive sulking earth makes darkness from what numinous abyss it hides, what secrets buried unfold there?
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At the edge of the cliff, I stared into the abysm below, feeling the overwhelming vastness of the chasm.
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The artist captured the sense of despair in his painting, portraying an abysm that seemed to swallow all hope.
Synonyms
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A very deep, bottomless hole that feels impossible to reach
A very deep hole or chasm that seems bottomless
A very deep chasm or space often used to describe extreme feelings
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Etymology
The word abysm comes from the old Greek word abyssos, which means 'without bottom'. It is the same root as the familiar word abyss, so an abysm is a very deep pit or a feeling that seems bottomless.