· the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events; "she began to recover from her numb unresponsiveness after the accident"; "in an instant all the deadness and withdrawal were wiped away"
Synonym(s): unresponsiveness
Hypernym(s): quality
· the physical property of something that has lost its elasticity; "he objected to the deadness of the tennis balls"
Hypernym(s): inelasticity
· the inanimate property of something that has died
Hypernym(s): inanimateness, lifelessness