lifelessness

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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Noun
  • The murders in 2024 included eight killings involving white supremacists and five deaths at the hands of far-right anti-government extremists.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025
  • He remains deeply saddened by the death of his favorite politician, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, felled by an assassin's bullets.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The one thing the insomniac does not envy is the unconscious dead.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Four people were sentenced in connection to a shooting death that left a 3-year-old dead in Ohio.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Being forced to grapple with his own mortality, as well as a bourgeoning romance fueling him with love, inspired Nazar to create Demilitarize.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 18 Feb. 2025
  • This direction was nonnegotiable, inspired by Diop’s holistic and healthy childhood, and the disproportionate rates at which Black women suffer from breast cancer mortality.
    Cierra Black, Essence, 13 Feb. 2025
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“Lifelessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifelessness. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.

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