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In Norse mythology, Ginnungagap (old Norse: [ˈɡinːoŋɡɑˌɡɑp]; "gaping abyss", "yawning void") is the primordial, magical void mentioned in three poems from the Poetic Edda and the Gylfaginning, the Eddaic text recording Norse cosmogony.
Hesiod does not tell us anything more about Chaos or its attributes, but its name clearly implies a vast, gaping abyss, chasm, or void. Even the location of Chaos is left vague, but several passages of the Theogony seem to locate it somewhere below the heavens and the earth but above Tartarus.
n. vast chasm. yawning chasm. n. abyssal emptiness. bottomless chasm. vast void. Another way to say Gaping Abyss? Synonyms for Gaping Abyss (other words and phrases for Gaping Abyss).
a very deep wide space or hole that seems to have no bottom. Ahead of them was a gaping abyss. They took a long look into the abyss before deciding whether to jump. (figurative) an abyss of ignorance/despair/loneliness. (figurative) The country is stepping back from the edge of an abyss.
1 a very deep wide space or hole that seems to have no bottom Ahead of them was a gaping abyss.
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• Bushnell stood on the rim of the canyon, with the rocky abyss behind him. • Penelope felt a sunken abyss within her gorged with sadness. • Reason says the same laws of economics that brought the market down should keep it from spiraling into the abyss. • Behind him is the abyss, the gaping cavern of the gold mine, down and down into ...
