lifelessness

as in death
the state of being dead the sight of her husband's corpse, in all of its embalmed lifelessness, was heartbreaking

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Noun
  • Prince was the last artist to claim three albums in the top 10 following the singer’s 2016 death.
    Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 5 Mar. 2025
  • One in 20 children with the disease will get pneumonia, which is the leading cause of death from measles in young children.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The one thing the insomniac does not envy is the unconscious dead.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Four people were sentenced in connection to a shooting death that left a 3-year-old dead in Ohio.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • That includes a University of Houston study of maternal mortality that examines why Black, Indigenous and other people of color in the U.S. are nearly three times as likely as white women to die during pregnancy or within the first year after childbirth.
    Agnel Philip, ProPublica, 28 Feb. 2025
  • On top of that, the report concluded (with moderate certainty) that when compared with never drinking, moderate alcohol consumption is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular mortality in both men and women.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Lifelessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifelessness. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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