deadness

Thân thiện

The tennis player frowned at the deadness of the ball after it bounced.

Definition

Noun: 1. The state or quality of being dead; the inanimate property of something that has died. 2. The physical property of something that has lost its elasticity or liveliness. 3. The quality of being unresponsive; a marked failure to react quickly or with emotion to stimuli, events, or people.

Usage Examples

• Referring to a lack of life or vitality:
  • The deadness of the winter landscape was both beautiful and melancholy.
  • Scientists studied the deadness of the tissue under the microscope.
• Referring to a loss of physical property (like elasticity):
  • The deadness of the old tennis balls made them unsuitable for the match.
  • Musicians often complain about the deadness of a piano's strings when they are old.
• Referring to emotional or reactive unresponsiveness:
  • There was a concerning deadness in his eyes after the traumatic event.
  • She tried to spark a conversation, but was met only with deadness and disinterest.

Advanced Usage

• "a deadness of tone": Used to describe a sound that lacks resonance, warmth, or vitality.
  • The recording had a strange deadness of tone, as if all the life had been filtered out.
• "emotional deadness": A psychological state characterized by a lack of emotional response.
  • The medication sometimes caused a feeling of emotional deadness as a side effect.

Variants and Related Words

• Dead (adj): No longer alive; devoid of life, activity, or effectiveness.
• Deadly (adj): Causing or able to cause death; extremely accurate or effective.
• Deaden (verb): To make something less intense, sensitive, or lively.
  • The thick carpet helped to deaden the sound of footsteps.

Synonyms

• Lifelessness: The state of being without life.
• Inelasticity: The quality of not being flexible or stretchy.
• Unresponsiveness: A lack of reaction or response.
• Apathy: Lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern.
• Numbness: Lack of feeling or sensation, often emotional.

Antonyms

• Liveliness: The quality of being full of life and energy.
• Elasticity: The ability of an object or material to resume its normal shape after being stretched or compressed.
• Responsiveness: The quality of reacting quickly and positively.
• Animation: The state of being full of life or excitement.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the inanimate property of something that has died
2. the physical property of something that has lost its elasticity
   • he objected to the deadness of the tennis balls
3. 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
   • she began to recover from her numb unresponsiveness after the accident
   • in an instant all the deadness and withdrawal were wiped away

Từ đồng nghĩa

• unresponsiveness