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the dimension you can't see in a photograph but feel in a person

means The distance downward or inward from a surface — and, by extension, the quality of having complexity, intensity, or profundity rather than shallowness.

from From Middle English depthe, built from the adjective 'deep' (Old English dēop) plus the noun-forming suffix '-th' — the same suffix that turns 'wide' into 'width' and 'long' into 'length.' 'Deep' itself traces back to a Germanic root for hollow or sunken things, related to words for diving and dipping. So 'depth' is literally 'the quality of being deep,' a measurement word that drifted, over centuries, from oceans and wells into souls and minds.

ocean floor
deepest point could swallow Everest with miles to spare
pressure
crushes steel submarines like aluminum cans down deep
brain trick
two eyes fake 3D from two flat images
perception
infants gauge cliff edges by eight months old
language
every culture borrows physical depth to describe feeling
for instance

mariana trench — deepest ocean point on earth at 10,994 meters below sea level

kola superdeep borehole — deepest hole drilled by humans, 12,262 meters deep in russia

challenger deep — deepest point in mariana trench, reached by james cameron in 2012

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