Deadness

noun

1. The state of being dead. Want of life or vital power in a once animated body, as an animal or a plant, or in a part of it.
2. The state of being by nature without life; inanimateness.
3. A state resembling that of death: as, the deadness of a fainting-fit.
4. Want of activity or sensitiveness; lack of force or susceptibility; dullness; coldness; frigidity; indifference: as, deadness of the affections.
5. Flatness; want of spirit: as, the deadness of liquors.