lifelessness

lifelessness

English

Etymology

lifeless +‎ -ness

Noun

lifelessness (uncountable)

1. The property of being lifeless, the lack of apparent animation.
   • 2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian‎:

     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.

Translations

the property of being lifeless, the lack of apparent animation

Finnish: elottomuus (fi) Hungarian: élettelenség (hu) Irish: díbheocht f Kurdish: Central Kurdish: مردویی‎ (mirduyî) Polish: martwota f Turkish: cansızlık (tr)

See also

• inanimation