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n. - The inanimate property of something that has died; The physical property of something that has lost its elasticity; The quality of being unresponsive.

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  • In an instant all the deadness and withdrawal were wiped away
  • He objected to the deadness of the tennis balls
  • 'I should have thought the deadness was a mild word for it, if it had been named to me when we brought you in.
  • It might be described as a deadness — or an absence of life; something that no face, upon an upright figure, should be.
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