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 But now, without its beloved owner, an undertone of lifelessness lingers. Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026 Canales answered to the lifelessness in his postgame presser. Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2025
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Noun
  • The abnormality has also been linked to deaths in the National Football League and in other sports such as hockey and soccer.
    ABC News, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Nancy Metayer Bowen was a politically-ambitious trailblazer for a new generation of Haitian Americans in South Florida before her tragic death, which is being criminally investigated, was announced Wednesday.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • The Platte County Sheriff’s Office has released more details into Sunday’s fiery car crash in rural Platte County that left one Park Hill High School senior dead.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2026
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 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries agency declared an unusual mortality event for eastern gray whales — meaning those in the eastern Pacific — from late 2018 to late 2023.
    ABC News, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • TxDot's Environmental Project Planner Brooke Bowman worked with Galveston County officials to collect and analyze coyote mortality data along that road over the past five years, the state agency said.
    Ashley Soebroto, Houston Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2026

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“Lifelessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifelessness. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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