单词 | deadness |
释义 | deadnessn. The condition or quality of being dead, in various senses: 1. literal. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > state or condition of deathOE homeOE restOE sleepOE powderc1300 corruptiona1340 gravec1380 darkness1535 silence1535 tomb1559 iron sleep1573 another country1597 iron slumber1604 deadness1607 deadlihead1612 deadlihood1659 nothingness1813 unlivingness1914 post-mortemity1922 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > [noun] unfeelingness1398 insensibility?1510 senselessness1577 indolency1603 stupidity1603 unfeeling1603 torpidity1614 torpor1626 sleepiness1647 indolence1656 insensibleness1656 narcosis1671 torpidnessa1676 torpitude1713 anaesthesia1721 deadness1764 insentience1862 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 620 To Pluto and to the earth, they sacrificed blacke sheep or lambes, in token of deadnes. a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) VII. 3 Cursing it [sc. the barren fig-tree] to deadness with a word. 1764 T. Woolcombe Let. 25 June in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) (1771) 60 97 A numbness and deadness of his little..finger. 1881 C. M. Yonge Lads & Lasses Langley ii. 95 The man that..gets the creeping deadness in his bones. 2. a. figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > want of or incapacity for emotion dryheada1300 lethargyc1380 drynessc1450 dumping1542 unsensibility1551 insensibleness?1555 unsensibleness?1555 stupidity1568 stolidity1570 stupor1570 dumpishness1574 senselessness1577 innaturality1579 astoniedness1580 impassibility1603 stupefaction1603 torpor1607 deadness1611 unsufferance1611 hebetude1621 nonsense1621 drought1622 hebetation1623 obstupefaction1625 unanswerableness1626 tastelessnessa1631 insensateness1646 impassiveness1648 obtuseness1648 barrenness1655 torpulency1657 sterility1661 spiritlessness1669 unspiritedness1669 unaffectedness1678 insensibility1691 stolidness1727 apathy1742 impenetrableness1747 unfeelingness1766 impassivity1794 unfeeling1805 soullessness1811 incommobility1822 obtusity1823 unimpressibleness1830 hardhead1836 stockishness1837 insensitiveness1838 impenetrability1847 unreceptivity1849 unsusceptibility1850 woodenness1854 unimpressionability1862 irresponsiveness1864 unresponsiveness1869 impassibleness1874 irreceptivity1881 unimpressibility1889 apatheia1893 inemotivity1894 affectlessness1921 insensitivity1957 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [noun] unkinda1200 barrenhoodc1380 barrennessa1382 geldheada1400 sterility1535 sterileness1558 unfruitfulness1565 infecundity1605 deadness1611 infertility1869 subfertility1917 1611 Bible (King James) Rom. iv. 19 The deadnesse of Saraes wombe. View more context for this quotation a1628 J. Preston Saints Daily Exercise (1629) 74 What is a man to doe when hee findes a great indisposition to prayer..a dulnesse, and deadnesse in him. 1642 Petition in Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion (1702) I. iv. 322 By the deadness of Trade. a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 121 They..Have bloodlesse cheekes, and deadnesse in their eyes. 1738 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) I. 162 Hence my deadness and wanderings in public prayer. 1749 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. II 75 Spiritual Desertions, inward Deadnesses. 1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World (1884) v. 160 The spiritual deadnèss of humanity. b. The state of being dead to something. ΚΠ 1745 J. Wesley Answer to Rev. Church 7 Your Deadness to the World. 1786 F. Burney Diary 17 Sept. (1842) III. 145 The deadness of the whole court to talents and genius. 1858 H. Bushnell Nature & Supernat. xiv Deadness to God and all holy things. 3. Want of some characteristic physical quality; absence of lustre or colour, dullness; want of taste; flatness, insipidity, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > [noun] wearishnessa1398 unsavouriness1422 tastelessness1600 flashinessa1603 wallowishness1603 insipidity1611 insipidnessa1631 deadness1707 flatness1707 mawkishness1727 walshness1808 ditchwateriness1840 savourlessness1841 blandness1846 silence1879 the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > cider > [noun] > flatness (of cider) deadness1707 the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [noun] whitenessOE wanness1382 pallorc1400 lewness1611 bloodlessness1646 exsanguinality1651 pallidness1661 pallidity1691 paledness1702 deadness1760 tallowiness1830 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 599 Cyder that hath acquired a Deadness or Flatness by being kept in a Beer or Ale Vessel, is not to be revived again. 1760 S. Fielding Ophelia I. xix. 150 I had perceived..Deadness in the best Complexions. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1607 |
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