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lifelessness

noun

Etymology

From lifeless + -ness.

  1. inherited from līflēas — “lifeless”
  2. inherited from lyfles
  3. suffixed as lifelessness — “lifeless + ness”

Definitions

  1. The property of being lifeless, the lack of apparent animation.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lifelessness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA