lifelessness

Etymology

lifeless + -ness

noun

  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. February 25 2020, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian

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