lifelessness

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The property of being lifeless, the lack of apparent animation. uncountable
    — In the last years of the 20th century, Glenfeshie, a 17,000-hectare estate in the Scottish Highlands, was in steep decline. Decades of overgrazing by deer had reduced its hillsides to clipped lifelessness.

词源

Etymology tree
English lifeless
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English lifelessness
From lifeless + -ness.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary