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
Did the baby’s livingness make Tomm’s deadness louder?
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Maria Zorn, Longreads, 24 Feb. 2026
There is, in the end, a deadness to its clichés about writers and their subjects.
—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
Maria Zorn, Longreads, 24 Feb. 2026
There is, in the end, a deadness to its clichés about writers and their subjects.
—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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But those numbers capture only a fraction of deaths, which often are classified only by other, more immediate causes, such as bleeding in the brain.—
Lee Hutchinson,
ArsTechnica,
6 May 2026
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Too much damage has been done to the character in recent years, to the point that any death would be seen as a mercy killing now.—
Sergio Pereira,
Space.com,
6 May 2026
Noun
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Then one of Shapira’s fellow soldiers turns up and shoots the Syrian dead.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
26 Apr. 2026
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Legend has it that one funeral was so fueled by whiskey in this sacred spot that the mourners forgot to bury their dead.—
Rosie Conroy,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Even as people pursue methods to add more years to their lives, conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, stroke and cancer are major drivers of both mortality and disability, particularly in later life.—
Madeline Holcombe,
CNN Money,
2 May 2026
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Researchers are currently conducting laboratory testing of potassium chloride on golden mussel mortality and completing a design for ultraviolet disinfection systems, according to the CDWR.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
1 May 2026
Noun
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Mira looked at him, her face grave and blank.—
Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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The child skeleton was found in 1998 in a grave dating back 30,000 years.—
Jenny Staletovich,
Miami Herald,
2 May 2026
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“Deadness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deadness. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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