semianimate

adj

semianimate

adj

Etymology From semi- + animate.

1

Partly, but not truly or wholly, alive.

As the balance of power gradually tips in favor of blockage, the semianimate voice of the instrument fades into the mechanism of silence […]2009, Lawrence Kramer, Why Classical Music Still Matters:

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