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lifelessness en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Etymology tree English lifeless Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English lifelessness From lifeless + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The property of being lifeless, the lack of apparent animation.
    • In the last years of the 20th century, Glenfeshie, a 17,000-hectare estate in the Scottish Highlands, was in steep decline. Decades of overgrazing by deer had reduced its hillsides to clipped lifelessness. 2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian:

Relateds

inanimation

Translations (7)

pl martwota (the property of being lifeless, the lack of apparent animation) · ga díbheocht (the property of being lifeless, the lack of apparent animation) · fi elottomuus (the property of being lifeless, the lack of apparent animation) · hu élettelenség (the property of being lifeless, the lack of apparent animation) · tr cansızlık (the property of being lifeless, the lack of apparent animation) · ckb مردویی (the property of being lifeless, the lack of apparent animation) · ru безжизненность (the property of being lifeless, the lack of apparent animation)