lifelessness

English

Etymology

lifeless +‎ -ness

Pronunciation

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Noun

lifelessness (uncountable)

1. The property of being lifeless, the lack of apparent animation.
   • 2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.

Translations

the property of being lifeless, the lack of apparent animation

• Finnish: elottomuus (fi)
• Hungarian: élettelenség (hu)
• Irish: díbheocht f
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مردویی (mirduyî)

• Polish: martwota f
• Russian: безжизненность (ru) f (bezžiznennostʹ)
• Turkish: cansızlık (tr)

See also

• inanimation