abysm
/əˈbɪz(ə)m
/noun literary
An abyss: the abysm from which nightmares crawl...
- For its self-referential abysms are only made darker by the thought that Rosemary Squires didn't pour her heart into this song: Irving Berlin did.
- ‘What she offered,’ notes the author, ‘in her most sensual, primitive, uncivilized and, from the standpoint of normal aesthetics, distasteful acts slipped over the brink - and she could take you with her - into the abysms of the sacred.’
- Crystal reached her shaking hand and took it as if it was her last salvation before she falls in the abysm.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French abisme, medieval Latin abysmus, alteration of late Latin abyssus 'bottomless pit', the ending being assimilated to the Greek ending -ismos.
Rhymes
- video camera
- video card
- videocassette
- videocassette recorder
- videocast
- video chat
- videoconference
- videoconferencing
- video dating
- video diary
- videodisc
- video display terminal
- videofit
- video frequency
- video game
- videogenic
- videogram
- videographer
- videographics
- videography
- video jock
- video jockey
- video link
- video mail
- video message