as in death
the state of being dead
the sheer deadness of the corpse was the creepiest thing about it
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Recent Examples of deadness
Did the baby’s livingness make Tomm’s deadness louder?
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Maria Zorn, Longreads, 24 Feb. 2026
There is, in the end, a deadness to its clichés about writers and their subjects.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025
But then there is that deadness that enters into the closing chapters, which might as easily be called inexorability.
—Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
Maria Zorn, Longreads, 24 Feb. 2026
There is, in the end, a deadness to its clichés about writers and their subjects.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025
But then there is that deadness that enters into the closing chapters, which might as easily be called inexorability.
—Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deadness
Noun
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Aoun’s confirmation of their deaths comes after the agency earlier reported that the three were trapped beneath rubble.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2026
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Based on preliminary data from the CHP’s Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System, more than 110,000 crashes in 2025 resulted from unsafe speeds, leading to more than 400 deaths and injuring more than 68,000 people.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Then one of Shapira’s fellow soldiers turns up and shoots the Syrian dead.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
26 Apr. 2026
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Legend has it that one funeral was so fueled by whiskey in this sacred spot that the mourners forgot to bury their dead.—
Rosie Conroy,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The researchers used nationwide death certificate records from 1999 to 2022 to model what the suicide mortality would have been had the 988 line not launched.—
Devi Shastri,
Fortune,
24 Apr. 2026
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Now an analysis of suicide mortality across the country has found that deaths among young adults have fallen in the time since the hotline was introduced.—
Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The tune is jaunty, but this is the kind of patter that, in Wilson’s work, floats above a grave.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
26 Apr. 2026
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For audiences expecting a cradle-to-grave reckoning, that cutoff can feel abrupt.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Deadness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deadness. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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