What is the difference between abysm and abyss?
abysm | abyss |
(archaic, poetic) Hell; the infernal pit; the great deep; the primal chaos.
* 1623 , Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra , III, xiii:
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Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean.
(frequently, figurative) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space.
Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound.
Moral depravity; vast intellectual or moral depth.
An impending catastrophic happening.
(heraldry) The center of an escutcheon.
Abyss is a alternative form of abysm.
As nouns the difference between abysm and abyss
is that abysm is hell; the infernal pit; the great deep; the primal chaos while abyss is hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean.abysm
English
Noun
(en noun)- The abysm of hell.