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Definition of Deadness
1. Noun. 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. "In an instant all the deadness and withdrawal were wiped away"
Generic synonyms: Quality
Specialized synonyms: Frigidity, Frigidness, Resistance
Derivative terms: Dead, Dead, Unresponsive, Unresponsive
Antonyms: Responsiveness
2. Noun. The physical property of something that has lost its elasticity. "He objected to the deadness of the tennis balls"
3. Noun. The inanimate property of something that has died.
Derivative terms: Dead, Dead, Dead, Dead, Dead, Dead, Dead
Definition of Deadness
1. n. The state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit, activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference; as, the deadness of a limb, a body, or a tree; the deadness of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or cider; deadness to the world, and the like.
Definition of Deadness
1. Noun. The state of not being alive. Having the property of lifelessness, as if dead. ¹
2. Noun. A lack of elasticity. ¹
3. Noun. A lack of sparkle in a fizzy drink. ¹
4. Noun. A lack of animation in a person. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deadness
1. the state of being dead [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Deadness
1. The state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit, activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference; as, the deadness of a limb, a body, or a tree; the deadness of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or cider; deadness to the world, and the like. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deadness
Literary usage of Deadness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1855)
"... slave» by the French in the xvith century, i9a. Ram, if his tongue black, his
lambs will be black, 161. Ranter», 48, 170. Profanation, deadness to, 898. ..."
2. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans (1847)
"... raised from the deadness of the letter, to live in the Spirit unto the Lord
our God. We were favoured during the various sittings of this yearly meeting ..."
3. The Chemistry of Common Life by James Finlay Weir Johnston, Arthur Herbert Church (1880)
"How this explains the liveliness of champagne and soda-water, the bursting of
bottles, the briskness and deadness of beer, &c.—Excess of oxygen in the air ..."
4. Theism, Doctrinal and Practical; Or, Didactic Religious Utterances by Francis William Newman (1858)
"How shall the faithless cure his deadness, or life rise out of death ? ...
If no wilful and conscious sin be thy malady, but only deadness, Springing from ..."
5. A German-English dictionary of terms used in medicine and the allied sciences by Hugo Lang, Bertram Abrahams (1905)
"... tactile papilla Gefühls-sinn, m. sense of touch Gefühls-stumpfheit, /.
deadness numbness of sensation Gefühls-thätigkeit, /. sensory pacity Gefühls ..."
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