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 research accounted for reduced availability of key nutrients in seafood, including calcium, omega-3 fatty acids, protein and iron -- the loss of which can be linked to increases in disease risk and additional deaths.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
15 Jan. 2026
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Evan Peters and Rebecca Hall play government agents investigating some mysterious deaths of some very hot people, with Isabella Rossellini and Anthony Ramos also starring.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
15 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
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Citizens commune not just with deceased relatives but with the undifferentiated mass of anonymous dead.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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The vast, indifferent Moroccan desert acts as a major character, stripping the human characters bare and forcing a primal confrontation with mortality, loss, and the unconstrained forces of nature.—
Robert Lang,
Deadline,
7 Jan. 2026
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Pettini said since 2020, the program has reduced mortality in trauma, shootings, and stabbings, as well as medical cases such as gastrointestinal bleeds and postpartum hemorrhage.—
Sean Krofssik,
Hartford Courant,
7 Jan. 2026
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Beyond the gate are hundreds of white crosses, marking the graves of Parchman’s long-dead prisoners.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Jan. 2026
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And Carillo was brutally stabbed to death, her body tossed into a shallow grave that had been dug in the backyard behind the house.—
Kevin Maurer,
Rolling Stone,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Deadness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deadness. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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