What is "lifelessness"

Usage examples of "lifelessness".

The Australian Unwins, sitting with the rival owners of Flokati, were concerned about a lifelessness they had detected in Upper Gumtree due to the fact that on the train their horse had been fed a restricted diet of compressed food nuts and high-grade hay and the Flokati people were cheerfully saying that on so long a stretch without exercise, good hay was best.

Australian Unwins, sitting with the rival owners of Flokati, were concerned about a lifelessness they had detected in Upper Gumtree due to the fact that on the train their horse had been fed a restricted diet of compressed food nuts and high-grade hay and the Flokati people were cheerfully saying that on so long a stretch without exercise, good hay was best.

The aridness, the dessication, the lifelessness of everything about was somehow shocking.

As the two scouts deliberated how best to pro­ceed, the bands of red and gold that shone from the com­pound eyes of their victim gradually began to take on the blank brown tint of lifelessness.

About forty standard years past, during a lull in the seemingly interminable berserker-war, it had appeared that the peaceful advancement of interstellar humanization might get in an inning or two, and work had begun toward altering this lifelessness.

Usually she much preferred the living wood -- with its food, warmth, and hundreds of friendly eyes -- though right now the metal wood's cold, bleak lifelessness matched her misery.