deadness

[ UK /dˈɛdnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events
    she began to recover from her numb unresponsiveness after the accident
    in an instant all the deadness and withdrawal were wiped away
  2. the physical property of something that has lost its elasticity
    he objected to the deadness of the tennis balls
  3. the inanimate property of something that has died
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How To Use deadness In A Sentence

  • The adamant assertions that the plane that had been found was Oceanic 815, and that there are no survivors, is in fact disconfirmed, unless there is some sense in which being alive on the island is a form of "deadness". Confirmed LOST
  • Survivors frequently complain of chronic depression and an inner deadness, unable to experience lasting pleasure or excitement.
  • Well, this here comes from those times which seem oh so very far away now and seemingly forever moving in the direction of awayness as we get yet another series of the embarssing unimaginative deadness that is Shooting Stars. Vic Reeves & The Roman Numerals - Born Free (12")
  • Compared to human mortality, spiritual deadness is much more devastating.
  • His last thought before the sweet deadness of sleep overcame him was that he had to be rescued quickly or else not at all.
  • Then her beautiful locks are submitted to the tonsure; and to signify her deadness forever to the world, she is clothed in a dress of coarse grey cloth, called serge, in which she is to pass the miserable remnant of her days. Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal
  • Psychic deadness, erasure of intersubjectivity, refusal of meaning-making, perversion of agency, and an inability to bear desire constitute the core features of the post-traumatic psychic landscape of torture. Think Progress » Former Bush Speechwriter Attacks Reporter For Pointing Out Bush Techniques Were Used By Khmer Rouge
  • It might be described as a deadness — or an absence of life; something that no face, upon an upright figure, should be. Last Posed Photo of Jack London
  • Well, the "deadness" of anything anthropomorphizable is up for grabs of course. Recipe
  • He had a great many other things to say; but this was what we were willing to hear: a reaction against the gross contempt for soldiering which had really given a certain Chinese deadness to the Victorians. The Victorian Age in Literature
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