the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events
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deadness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | unresponsiveness |
| Type of | quality |
| Has types | frigidity, frigidness, resistance |
| Derivation | dead |
in an instant all the deadness and withdrawal were wiped away.
deadness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | inanimateness, lifelessness |
| Derivation | dead |
deadness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | inelasticity |
| Derivation | dead |
he objected to the deadness of the tennis balls.
Examples of deadness
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For men, circumcision is an avenue to power and its attendant spiritual deadness.
From the guardian.co.uk
Emotional deadness, disengagement, and constriction are increasingly the norm.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I usually cut away all the deadness and it grows again, so the plant itself lives on.
From the guardian.co.uk
It is impossible to say exactly when his stoicism becomes a perfect deadness of the soul.
From the time.com
These photographs are graphic, but their horror is contained by a kind of aesthetic deadness.
From the independent.co.uk
Shame, feelings of inadequacy and often a sense of deadness lurk just behind the velvet drapes.
From the ocregister.com
It's just unfortunate that my plans are scuppered by the deadness of Rathbone and Brett really.
From the guardian.co.uk
Though the musicians tried hard, fortes were brassy, and silences filled with deadness rather than resonance.
From the thenewstribune.com
The anger and deadness had completely disappeared.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
- Unresponsiveness: the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events; "she began to recover from her numb unresponsiveness after the accident"; "in an instant all the deadness and withdrawal ...
- The physical property of something that has lost its elasticity; "he objected to the deadness of the tennis balls"
- The state of not being alive. Having the property of lifelessness, as if dead; A lack of elasticity; A lack of sparkle in a fizzy drink; A lack of animation in a person
- Ineligibility to earn bonus strokes by hitting another ball with your own ball.
- When one player's ball hits another ball, that player can't use the ball they just hit until they have gone through the next wicket.
