| NOUN | attribute | deadness, unresponsiveness | the quality of being unresponsive |
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| attribute | deadness | the physical property of something that has lost its elasticity | |
| attribute | deadness | the inanimate property of something that has died |
| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Example | "in an instant all the deadness and withdrawal were wiped away" | |
| Synonym | unresponsiveness | |
| Narrower | frigidity, frigidness | sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse |
| resistance | The degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria) | |
| Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
| Opposite | responsiveness | The quality of being responsive |
| Adjectives | dead | devoid of physical sensation |
| dead | (followed by 'to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity | |
| Meaning | The physical property of something that has lost its elasticity. | |
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| Example | "he objected to the deadness of the tennis balls" | |
| Broader | inelasticity | The lack of elasticity |
| Spanish | entumecimiento, torpor | |
| Catalan | torpor | |
| Adjectives | dead | lacking resilience or bounce |
| Meaning | The inanimate property of something that has died. | |
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| Broader | inanimateness, lifelessness | not having life |
| Adjectives | dead | no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life |
| dead | not showing characteristics / characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life | |
| dead | not surviving in active use | |
| dead | physically inactive | |
| dead | out of use or operation because of a fault / fault or breakdown | |
| dead | not circulating or flowing | |
| dead | drained of electric charge | |
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