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
  • Dewitt, now 31, entered a guilty plea to carjacking resulting in death Monday in U.S. District Court Judge David J. Hale’s court.
    Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Many of those changes were made after Setzer’s death.
    Clare Duffy, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • For five years, the unclaimed dead of Dallas and Tarrant counties were delivered to the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth.
    Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • With cap-and-trade dead in the Oregon Legislature, Brown had issued an executive order mandating statewide controls on greenhouse gas emissions.
    McKenzie Funk, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Like language, tool use, altruism, and numeracy, a grasp of mortality was long cordoned off as the special, if difficult, birthright of human beings.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Green and his brother, Hank Green, have long been advocates for access to healthcare and have raised over $30 million dollars to combat maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, according to his bio.
    Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Oct. 2024

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“Lifelessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifelessness. Accessed 9 Nov. 2024.

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