lifelikeness
- noun
- /ˈlaɪfˌlaɪk.nəs/
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realismo
- Reveal the lifelikeness of characters through their inconsistent attributes.
Examples
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There is yet another reason why the narrator cannot be the principal object of illusion: independently of his or her potential lifelikeness.
Academic text (2004) -
Holding the small leather frames in my hand and turning them to the light, images of faces and scenes came up with astonishing detail and lifelikeness.
Fiction book (1993) -
He describes a simulacrum, a work whose inexplicable beauty and lifelikeness reflect not the skill of a human artist but the consequence of something supernatural.
Academic text (2005) -
The consistency and lifelikeness of realistic narrative worlds are actually facets of a more general quality of illusionist possible worlds, namely their accessibility.
Academic text (2004) -
They are undecidable in their lifelikeness; there is possibly a whiff of blasphemy in the zoomorphism of Gehry's cathedral.
Academic text (1999) -
Whoever devised the inscription, and it was unlikely to have been the painter since he probably did not read Latin, offered Bellini double praise and did so by alluding to the lifelikeness of his image rather than by mentioning his skill directly.
Academic text (1998) -
As opposed to hallucination and other illusion-like states, the experience elicited by aesthetic illusion has a characteristic "as-if" quality: the illusion-producing object creates a feeling of verisimilar lifelikeness, but not of life tout court.
Academic text (2004) -
Vividly photographed on location in the clear light of day without the least expressionist distortion or embellishment, the scenes depicting the stricken town have an arresting, stark lifelikeness.
Academic text (1993) -
The lifelikeness of the paintings made visitors feel as if they were standing in the scenes.
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The movie's special effects contributed to the lifelikeness of the creatures, making them appear truly realistic.
Synonyms
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3.7
How much a sound, image, or performance feels like real life
Antonyms
How Realistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lifelikeness comes from life + like + -ness, and it literally means 'like life'. So lifelikeness describes the quality of looking real or almost alive, like a wax figure or a very detailed painting.