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Synonyms for lifelessness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : lahyf-lis |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈlaɪf lɪs |
Top 10 synonyms for lifelessness
Définition of lifelessness
Origin :- Old English lifleas "inanimate, dead;" see life + -less. Meaning "with no living things" is from 1728. Related: Lifelessly; lifelessness.
- noun dullness
- For the moment this lifelessness was not observed by the hungry castaways.
- Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dry Dock » by T. S. Stribling
- The aridness, the desiccation, the lifelessness of everything about was somehow shocking.
- Extract from : « Sand Doom » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
- A living person, she seemed the personification of lifelessness.
- Extract from : « The Master Mummer » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
- But there are two kinds of lifelessness: one from which there is no back-coming—one from which there is.
- Extract from : « Red as a Rose is She » by Rhoda Broughton
- We talk of death and of lifelessness, but we know only of life.
- Extract from : « The Holy Earth » by L. H. Bailey
- Hence the lifelessness of its criticism, its advice, its plans, and its recipes.
- Extract from : « Dictatorship vs. Democracy » by Leon Trotsky
- The tint of the silk added to the lifelessness of her aspect.
- Extract from : « The Silent Barrier » by Louis Tracy
- It had been a lifeless day, and I was wondering how long I could endure the lifelessness.
- Extract from : « The High Heart » by Basil King
- It was the weight that crushed her almost to lifelessness; it was the bar sinister.
- Extract from : « The Daughter of Anderson Crow » by George Barr McCutcheon
- His routine might be due, not to a lifelessness, but to a rush of life.
- Extract from : « Orthodoxy » by G. K. Chesterton
Antonyms for lifelessness
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