lifelessness
nounEtymology 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.2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian:
- Related terms
- inanimation