dead-beatnessn.
rare.
1. The quality or property of being aperiodic.
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1898 E. J. Houston Dict. Electr. Words (ed. 4) App. B. 737/1 Dead beatness, possessing the property of aperiodicity.
1918 K. Edgcumbe Industr. Electr. Measuring Instruments (ed. 2) 154 A most important feature of all moving coil instruments lies in their dead-beatness.
2. Utter exhaustion.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [noun]
wearinessc900
slemea1300
werihede1340
talma1400
aneantizinga1425
faintnessa1440
defatigation1508
languishness?1529
lassitude1541
tiredness1552
overtiring1598
attainta1616
languishmentc1620
exhaustment1621
prostrationa1626
exhaustiona1639
tiresomeness1646
lassation1650
exantlation1651
fessitude1656
faintingnessa1661
delassation1692
tiriness1697
languor1707
fatigue1719
exhausture1779
distress1803
exhaustedness1840
worn-outness1844
tire1859
dead-beatness1907
1907 M. C. Harris Tents of Wickedness iii. v. 299 The light came streaming in at the window that in the dead-beatness of last night everyone had forgotten to close.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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