the.com/fathomless
A word measuring nothingness by the unit you can never reach the bottom with.
means So deep, vast, or mysterious that it cannot be measured or fully understood.
from Built on "fathom," from Old English "fæðm," meaning the outstretched arms or an embrace — the span from fingertip to fingertip, about six feet. Sailors used it to measure water depth by paying out a knotted line, arm-length by arm-length. To call something "fathomless," then, is to say no amount of those armspans will ever touch bottom — the suffix "-less" closing the door on any hope of reaching it.
- origin
- A fathom is six feet, originally an arm-span
- literal
- Means depths a measuring line cannot touch
- gesture
- Sailors measured by stretching both arms wide
- flip side
- Same word praises eyes and damns oceans
for instance
mariana trench — deepest ocean point at 36,070 feet, located in western pacific near guam
kola superdeep borehole — deepest hole drilled by humans at 40,230 feet in russia, 1989