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abyss
1[ uh-bis ]
noun
- a deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity; vast chasm.
- anything that seems to be without end or is impossible to measure, define, or comprehend:
the abyss of their grief and sorrow.
- (in ancient cosmogony)
- the primal chaos before Creation.
- the infernal regions; hell.
- a subterranean ocean.
Abyss.
2abbreviation for
- Abyssinia.
- Abyssinian.
abyss
/ əˈ²úɪ²õ /
noun
- a very deep or unfathomable gorge or chasm
- anything that appears to be endless or immeasurably deep, such as time, despair, or shame
- hell or the infernal regions conceived of as a bottomless pit
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of abyss1
C16: via Late Latin from Greek abussos bottomless (as in the phrase abussos limnē bottomless lake), from a- 1+ bussos depth
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"When we face such an abyss, such a cliff edge it says to them they don't have a place in society and that's where it needs to change."
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Though she gets dangerously close to falling into the abyss of her pain, she catches herself before it’s too late.
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It warned in September that Myanmar was "sinking into an abyss of human suffering".
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Ms Cubitt also said that there was an often an "abyss, there's nothing there" for autistic young people when they left school.
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Didn’t old Fred Nietzsche say something about gazing too long into the abyss?
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