bottomlessness
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9.3
- noun
- /ˈbɑːtəmˌlɛs.nəs/
:
profundidad infinita
- The bottomlessness of his ambition drove him to pursue goals that others deemed impossible.
Examples
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And at the bottom of this bottomlessness (in Eden, oxymorons are as esteemed as orchids) there was pardes.
Fiction book (1997) -
"as it pierced the veil of the sluice that lay at the bottom of the well—or, rather, as it flew through the impalpable membrane that marked the beginning of bottomlessness.
Fiction book (1997) -
Who knows the bottomlessness of the sand?
Academic text (1992) -
The Strike Witches franchise is one that people should look past the bottomlessness of things.
Blog text (14) -
One thing that personally draws me into the series is not so much the bottomlessness of things, but the characters themselves and the amount of detail that the production company has put in.
Blog text (14) -
Repetition is thus conceived not as supplementary accumulation, but as an essential operation, as the "bottomlessness" that provides the very grounds for existence.
Academic text (1998) -
Once it lends itself a single time to such a representation—that is to say, once it is written—when one can read a book in the book, an origin in the origin, a center in the center, is it the abyss, the bottomlessness of infinite redoubling?
Academic text (1998) -
The ocean's bottomlessness captivated the divers as they explored its depths.
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Her curiosity about the universe seemed to reflect a bottomlessness that could not be satisfied.
Synonyms
79
7.4
A very deep, bottomless hole that feels impossible to reach
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3.9
The lowest parts of a place or a feeling
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2.8
The distance from a surface down into something like a lake
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8.9
A state with no end or edge
A very deep hole or empty space used to talk about great emptiness
A very deep hole or chasm that seems bottomless
A very deep chasm or space often used to describe extreme feelings
Great physical depth, like a deep cave or ocean
A very great physical depth, for example deep water or a mine
The quality of having no limits in space, time, or size
Antonyms
How Deep
Surface Forms
Morphology
bottomlessness = bottomless (semi-transparent) = bottom + less + ness
Formed from 'bottomless' + '-ness'; the literal 'without a bottom' is clear but the common metaphorical sense 'endless' is a non-literal extension that may not be fully predictable for all learners.
Etymology
Bottomlessness comes from bottom 'lowest part' plus the endings -less 'without' and -ness 'state or quality'. It literally means 'without a bottom', like a deep hole or the ocean where you cannot see the end, and that is why we use it to describe something very deep or with no limit.