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Noun
/əˈbis/,
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abysses, plural;
  1. A deep or seemingly bottomless chasm
    • - a rope led down into the dark abyss
    • - I was stagnating in an abyss of boredom
  2. A wide or profound difference between people; a gulf
    • - the abyss between the two nations
  3. The regions of hell conceived of as a bottomless pit
    • - Satan's dark abyss
  4. A catastrophic situation seen as likely to occur
    • - teetering on the edge of the abyss of a total political wipeout
  1. a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)
  2. Abyss is the fourth album by British heavy metal band Lionsheart, released by Metaledge Records on June 24, 2004.
  3. Abyss is a fictional character in the Marvel UK comics' universe, a supervillain who has fought Nova and other Marvel cosmic entities. ...
  4. In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the Abyss or more fully, the Infinite Layers of the Abyss, is a chaotic evil-aligned plane of existence. ...
  5. In biblical literature, abyss refers to a bottomless pit, to the underworld, to the deepest ocean floor, or to hell.
  6. RuneScape is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released in January 2001 by Andrew and Paul Gower, and developed by Jagex Ltd. It is a graphical browser game implemented on the client-side in Java, and incorporates 3D rendering. ...
  7. A comprehensive list of characters from the Soul series of fighting games produced by Namco.
  8. Abyss is a '''' novel written by David Weddle and Jeffrey Lang.
  9. Abyss is novel by Troy Denning released on August 18, 2009. It is the third novel in the Fate of the Jedi series and published as a hardcover.
  10. Season six of Stargate SG-1, an American-Canadian television series, began airing on June 7, 2002 on Sci Fi. The sixth season concluded after 22 episodes on February 19, 2003 on British Sky One, which overtook the Sci-Fi Channel in mid-season. ...
  11. A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit; Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth; The center of an escutcheon
  12. The center of an escutcheon. For example, to bear a fleur-de-lis in abyss is to have it placed in the middle of the shield free from any other bearing.
  13. That volume of ocean lying below 300 fathoms from surface.
  14. The great depths of the ocean floor-usually with depths of 15, 000 feet or more.
  15. When you stare into the Abyss long enough, the Abyss stares back at you. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
  16. The chasm through which consciousness “falls” from non-duality into duality. The nature of the Abyss is mind; its function is division. Out of it emerges creation – the universe as perceived by the dualistic mind that separates forms and defines them by contrast. ...
  17. Means "bottomless pit." In the New Testament, the sea symbolized chaos, evil, and evil beings. The depths of the sea were seen as the home of demons, or the Abyss, according to Jewish tradition.
  18. the distance between truth and sanity. /
  19. (405) Theol. the primeval void or chaos before the Creation.
  20. ( Horror Global Games [HP] Marco Pecota & Wes Johnson with Decius¸ Steve Patterson )
  21. A barrier which stands between knowing what needs to be done and actually doing it
  22. The place of imprisonment for the demons and for satan. Satan is currently imprisoned there but is still able to operate in the affairs of man (20:1-3). The image of the abyss is used to refer to: (1) the realm of the powers of darkness, and (2) the influence of the powers of darkness, i.e. ...
  23. danger in business dealings, obstacles needs to be overcome
  24. Emptiness or the unknown. "Falling into an abyss" suggests despair and feelings of hopelessness.
  25. Its entrance is protected by stone guardians who will only grant passage to the carrier of a Tripartite Key.