noun
- 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.
- usage: "she began to recover from her numb unresponsiveness after the accident"; "in an instant all the deadness and withdrawal were wiped away"
- synonyms: unresponsiveness
- The physical property of something that has lost its elasticity.
- usage: "he objected to the deadness of the tennis balls"
- The inanimate property of something that has died. .
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