LIFELESSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lifelessness mean? 

• LIFELESSNESS (noun)
  The noun LIFELESSNESS has 2 senses:

1. a state of no motion or movement

2. not having life

  Familiarity information: LIFELESSNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIFELESSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of no motion or movement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

lifelessness; motionlessness; stillness

Context example:

the utter motionlessness of a marble statue

Hypernyms ("lifelessness" is a kind of...):

state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lifelessness"):

fixedness; immobility; stationariness (remaining in place)

Derivation:

lifeless (lacking animation or excitement or activity)

lifeless (destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not having life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

inanimateness; lifelessness

Hypernyms ("lifelessness" is a kind of...):

physiological property (a property having to do with the functioning of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lifelessness"):

deadness (the inanimate property of something that has died)

insentience (lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations)

Derivation:

lifeless (deprived of life; no longer living)

lifeless (not having the capacity to support life)

lifeless (lacking animation or excitement or activity)

 Context examples 

Frankenstein has daily declined in health; a feverish fire still glimmers in his eyes, but he is exhausted, and when suddenly roused to any exertion, he speedily sinks again into apparent lifelessness.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)