abyss

abyss
n
1. void, gulf, gap, bottomless pit, abysm, yawning abyss; cavity, hole, pit, depth, shaft; gorge, canyon, ravine, chasm; cleft, fissure, crevice, crevasse; the deep, the depths, ocean depths, bottomless depths.
2. profundity, profoundness, Archaic. profound, deepness; impenetrability, impenetrableness, incomprehensibility, incomprehensibleness, inscrutability, inscrutableness, unknowableness; mysticity, mysticali-ty, mysticalness, cabalism, occultness.
3.(all in ancient cosmogony) a. chaos, primal chaos, pandemonium, discord, confusion.b. hell, inferno, infernal pit, Hades, perdition; netherworld, underworld, lower world, bowels of the earth

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