English
lifelessness
From lifeless + -ness.
A compound of lifeless + -ness
Proto-Germanic *lībą ‘body’
Proto-West Germanic *līb ‘body’
Old English līf ‘life’
Old English līflēas
Middle English lyfles ‘lacking life’
English lifeless
Today it means
noun The property of being lifeless, the lack of apparent animation.
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Etymograph / lifelessness