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Definitions

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  • noun the state or quality of being bottomless

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  • noun the property of being very deep; without limit

Etymologies

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bottomless +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Given how obvious the above is, one is once again staggered by the absolute bottomlessness for your capacity for infantile stupidity.

    Think Progress » Bachmann Suggests Critics Of Health Care Reform Will Be Put On A ‘List’ And Denied Treatment 2010

  • Public nudity is in vogue, and the practice of toplessness (and sometimes bottomlessness) extends from small-town teenage girls -- one was seen calling out, loudly, for the services of a body-painter -- to the 60-somethings clutching each other in a fully nude embrace at the "Polyamory Paradise" camp.

    Desert Wanderers Find Their Promised Land Travis Kavulla 2008

  • The inspection of these chasms brought him a second pulsation of that old horror which he had used to describe to Viviette as produced in him by bottomlessness in the north heaven.

    Two on a Tower 2006

  • It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

    Walden 2004

  • Any historian who has done long stints of research knows the frustration over his or her inability to communicate the fathomlessness of the archives and the bottomlessness of the past.

    The New Age of the Book Darnton, Robert 1999

  • Bottom there was none; the bottomlessness of it only became more apparent when one or other of the horses stumbled into the hole of an ant-bear.

    On the Firing Line Hamilton Brock Fuller 1905

  • The inspection of these chasms brought him a second pulsation of that old horror which he had used to describe to Viviette as produced in him by bottomlessness in the north heaven.

    Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy 1884

  • There must be something monstrous, methinks, in a vision of the sea bottom from over some bank a thousand miles from the shore, more awful than its imagined bottomlessness; a drowned continent, all livid and frothing at the nostrils, like the body of a drowned man, which is better sunk deep than near the surface.

    Cape Cod 1865

  • It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

    Walden~ Chapter 16 (historical) 1854

  • It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

    Walden, or Life in the woods 1854

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