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Vinony

lifelessness

noun

  1. state/condition of being lifeless/devoid of animation/vitality
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noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English lifeless Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English lifelessness From lifeless + -ness.

  1. The property of being lifeless, the lack of apparent animation.

    “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.”