- 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.
- Abyssinia.
- Abyssinian.
- 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
