noun. The state of being dead. Want of life or vital power in a once animated body, as an animal or a plant, or in a part of it.

noun. The state of being by nature without life; inanimateness.

noun. A state resembling that of death: as, the deadness of a fainting-fit.

noun. Want of activity or sensitiveness; lack of force or susceptibility; dullness; coldness; frigidity; indifference: as, deadness of the affections.

noun. Flatness; want of spirit: as, the deadness of liquors.

noun. The state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit, activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference

noun. The state of not being alive. Having the property of lifelessness, as if dead.

noun. A lack of elasticity.

noun. A lack of sparkle in a fizzy drink.

noun. A lack of animation in a person.

noun. the physical property of something that has lost its elasticity

noun. the inanimate property of something that has died

noun. 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

"He had a great many other things to say; but this was what we were willing to hear: a reaction against the gross contempt for soldiering which had really given a certain Chinese deadness to the Victorians."

inanimateness  inelasticity  lifelessness  

apathy  barrenness  coldness  dejection  dreariness  

analgesia  anesthesia  aridity  barrenness  bloodlessness