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• n  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
  in an instant all the deadness and withdrawal were wiped away
• n  the physical property of something that has lost its elasticity
  he objected to the deadness of the tennis balls
• n  the inanimate property of something that has died

• It is impossible to say exactly when his stoicism becomes a perfect deadness of the soul.
• A Gentleman with a Duster spies him and makes these notes: "Tall ;rigidlean gray faceheavy-lidded eyesof an almost Asian deadnessupper lip projectsstonelike .
• Sanford, Mark political deadness of is acknowledged by Santorum, Rick self is delusionally seen by as a possible future President.

• unresponsiveness

• responsiveness