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What is an abyss?

What is an abyss? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (frequently figuratively) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
  2. Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
  3. Moral depravity; vast intellectual or moral depth.
  4. An impending catastrophic happening.
  5. (heraldry) The center of an escutcheon.
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But as soon as he did so, the world turned and he was swimming downwards, down, down into the deep, dark abyss.
Less than 30 seconds later, Maready was treading water as she watched the red beacon light of her tail rudder spiral deeper into the dark abyss.
It sets these individuals on a separate plane, creating an unnatural abyss between the organizer and the people for whom one works.
And perhaps that new glow about the city is the lost sense of pride emerging from the deep abyss it fell into.
We slipped into the clear, seemingly bottomless aquamarine abyss to snorkel.
The only thing that stands between us and the deep abyss of arbitrary executive power is the Rule of Law.

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