lifelessness

Definition of lifelessnessnext
as in death
the state of being dead the sight of her husband's corpse, in all of its embalmed lifelessness, was heartbreaking

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Recent Examples of lifelessness Canales answered to the lifelessness in his postgame presser. Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lifelessness
Noun
  • Fuentes is facing one count of leaving the scene of an accident involving death.
    Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Sandoval had not been charged as of Thursday in the teen’s death, according to police.
    Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • And yet Maram wanted to be there—to stand with her family members in those first fragile moments of quiet, to celebrate our survival and mourn our dead.
    Mosab Abu Toha, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Four people were arrested in Conway on Tuesday in relation to a Saturday shooting that left a 17-year-old dead, a news release from Conway police says.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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“Lifelessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifelessness. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.

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