as in death
the state of being dead
the sheer deadness of the corpse was the creepiest thing about it
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Recent Examples of deadness
There is, in the end, a deadness to its clichés about writers and their subjects.
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Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025
But then there is that deadness that enters into the closing chapters, which might as easily be called inexorability.
—Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025
But then there is that deadness that enters into the closing chapters, which might as easily be called inexorability.
—Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deadness
Noun
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The New Mexico Department of Health issued a warning Tuesday urging people to avoid consuming raw dairy products following the newborn’s death.—
Michael Sinkewicz,
FOXNews.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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The rival bids have drawn scrutiny from antitrust experts and lawmakers, who worry that either death could reduce competition in an entertainment industry already dominated by streaming giants.—
Claire Carter,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Feb. 2026
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Three tourists in New Orleans were wounded in a shooting that left a 19-year-old dead when the man ducked into a famed Creole restaurant in a bid to escape the gunfire, authorities said Monday.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
19 Jan. 2026
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But fear of the difficult dead neither originated in nor has been confined to the nineteenth-century European re-imaginings of Vlad the Impaler.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Both of them — as well as the alternating Bob Dylan and Tom Petty cosplay of Ozark crooner Jesse Welles’s Middle — must contend with a 92-year-old national treasure’s musing on mortality.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2026
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In fact, mortality among centenarians hasn’t improved in the past 30 years.—
Michal Ruprecht,
CNN Money,
29 Jan. 2026
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Violette’s nostalgic invocation of the aesthetics of the late ’60s and early ’70s did not so much channel the utopianism of the counterculture as mourn its passing, returning again and again to the grave of the last mythic moment when radical change seemed possible.—
Rachel Wetzler,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
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Sadly, millions of seniors born between 1917 and 1926 or even later went to their graves bitter and disappointed — including my own mother, by the way!—
Tom Margenau,
Dallas Morning News,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Deadness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deadness. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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