lifelessness

Examples

• All

• After the storm, the once vibrant landscape was reduced to lifelessness, devoid of color and movement.

• The abandoned house had an eerie lifelessness, with broken windows and decaying walls.

• The falling figure had the lifelessness of a rag doll.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Just as it began, a bare rock without any vegetation or human presence, Hashima has gone back to lifelessness.

  Blog text (22)

• She frequently stared at the imprecise gray and black images of herself in the morning paper and felt horrified at her own lifelessness.

  Fiction book (1998)

• With almost everyone dressed in drab, uninteresting clothes that rival the uniforms of Maoist China for their homogeneity and lifelessness.

  Blog text (31)

• His voice carried a sense of lifelessness, reflecting his fatigue and lack of enthusiasm.

Synonyms

I

inactivity

vslifelessness

10 3.5

A period of time with no movement or action

is the wider lack of life, energy, and vitality beyond mere lack of movement

B

bleakness

vslifelessness

3 6.3

A cold, empty feeling that makes a place or situation seem sad

focuses on lacking energy and movement rather than bleak atmosphere

D

dullness

vslifelessness

2 3.4

A feeling of low emotion and little interest

emphasizes lack of life and movement rather than emotional unresponsiveness

D

deadness

vslifelessness

2 5.3

A state of no life or energy that makes a person feel empty

is a broader state of low energy and movement rather than simply absence of life

L

listlessness

vslifelessness

2 6.8

A feeling of little energy and no interest

focuses more on overall absence of life and motion rather than mood alone

D

dreariness

vslifelessness

1 6.2

A dull, gloomy feeling that makes things seem not interesting

is the simple lack of life or movement rather than moodiness

S

soullessness

vslifelessness

1 7.7

A feeling of cold emptiness and lack of human warmth

is more about empty vitality and stillness than cold lack of feeling

V

vapidity

vslifelessness

1 9.3

A lack of energy and interest in speech or writing

stresses physical or energetic absence of life, not only blandness

D

deathliness

vslifelessness

1 9.1

A feeling or look that makes a place seem empty and lifeless

is the general lack of life or energy, not only a deathlike look

M

motionlessness

vslifelessness

1 6.0

A time when a person or thing is completely still

includes lack of movement but also missing life and energy broadly

D

desolateness

vslifelessness

1 7.5

A feeling of being very lonely and empty after loss

is the general absence of life and vitality rather than solitude

V

vacantness

vslifelessness

1 6.6

A blank look that shows no clear thought or feeling

is broader, covering physical and energetic absence not only empty expression

S

spiritlessness

vslifelessness

1 8.2

A lack of energy and interest that makes a person feel tired and low

covers broader lack of life and movement beyond mere low enthusiasm

I

inanimateness

vslifelessness

1 9.8

Lack of life or movement in things

is the general lack of energy or vitality, not only biological nonliving

P

pulselessness

vslifelessness

• Literature

8.8

Lack of energy and life in a speech or performance

is the overall lack of life and movement, not only figurative dullness

Antonyms

V

vitality

9 4.6

Ability of a living thing to survive and grow

How Lively

vitality

9 4.6

lifelessness

1 5.4

dullness

2 3.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology