What is another word for abysm?

Pronunciation: [ɐbˈɪzəm] (IPA)

Abysm is a word that refers to a deep and dark hole or chasm that seems bottomless. If you are looking for another word to substitute for abysm in your writing, you can consider using its synonyms. Some of the synonyms for abysm include abyss, gulf, pit, bottomless pit, void, chasm, and crevasse. While these words may differ slightly in meaning, they all convey a sense of deep or infinite emptiness or darkness. These words can be used in a variety of contexts, from describing physical landscapes and geographical features to conveying emotional or psychological states.

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What are the hypernyms for Abysm?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Abysm?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for abysm (as nouns)

Usage examples for Abysm

To Fenwick it was, like many others of the same sort, a possible herald of an analogous revelation in waking hours, with a sequel of dreadful verification from some abysm of an utterly forgotten past.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
I realized that a misstep might plunge me to a horrible death in the ice abysm below.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Convinced that in music lay the solution of this particular mathematical problem, he had been working for over a year on a symphonic poem which he jocularly christened "The abysm."
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker

Famous quotes with Abysm

  • What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?
    William Shakespeare
  • What seest thou elseIn the dark backward and abysm of time?
    William Shakespeare
  • This is the day, which down the void abysm At the Earth-born’s spell yawns for Heaven’s despotism And Conquest is dragged captive through the deep: Love, from its awful throne of patient power In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep, And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs And folds over the world its healing wings.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • For Knowledge is the swallow on the lake That sees and stirs the surface-shadow there But never yet hath dipt into the abysm
    Alfred
  • To be an American is, unquestionably, to be the noblest, grandest, the proudest mammal that ever hoofed the verdure of God's green footstool. Often, in the black abysm of the night, the thought that I am one awakens me with a blast of trumpets, and I am thrown into a cold sweat by contemplation of the fact. I shall cherish it on the scaffold; it will console me in Hell.
    H. L. Mencken

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