bottomlessness

Absence of floor

Bottomlessness is the quality or state of being without a bottom or limit.

It most often describes depths that seem to have no end—the bottomlessness of a chasm, an abyss, or the ocean.

The word extends naturally to abstract realms: the bottomlessness of grief, of human need, or of corporate greed.

The bottomlessness of his appetite for power alarmed even his allies.

abyss

chasm

Deep, steep-sided gap

  • voidWithout legal effect
  • gulfPartially enclosed sea
  • pitFruit's hard seed

fathomless · precipice · sinkhole · trench · cavern · vortex · maw · plunge · descent · yawning

infinite

eternity

Boundless temporal existence

endless · immeasurable · vastness · cosmic · inexhaustible · unlimited · unfathomable · measureless · illimitable · incalculable

insatiable

hunger

Need for nourishment

voracious · gluttony · ravenous · unquenchable · desire · longing · neediness · voracity · rapacity · emptiness

depths

oceanic

Of the sea

submerge · aquifer · abyssal · benthic · undersea · fathom · plumb · soundless · unplumbed · deep-sea

Categories
Opposites
depth

bottomlessnessshallowness

Lack of depth

superficiality · shallow depth

boundedness/limitation

bottomlessnessfiniteness

State of having endpoints

boundedness · limitedness · finitude · containment · circumscription

exhaustibility

bottomlessnessfiniteness

State of having endpoints

limitedness · scarcity · insufficiency · paucity · meagerness

Family

bottom, bottoms, bottomless, bottomed, bottoming, depthless

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG