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lifelikeness

lifelikeness noun: quality of being lifelike.

Noun

lifelikeness (uncountable)

  1. Quality of being lifelike.
    • That last conception of realism is certainly not the same as the notion of lifelikeness. Some of Magritte's paintings are very lifelike, for example, even though they do not show the sorts of scenes which one would ever actually encounter.2013, Dominic Gregory, Showing, Sensing, and Seeming, page 161

Origin of lifelikeness

From lifelike + -ness.

Questions about lifelikeness

What does lifelikeness mean?
Lifelikeness means quality of being lifelike.
What part of speech is lifelikeness?
Lifelikeness is a noun.

Words near lifelikeness in the dictionary

  1. lifelessly
  2. lifelessness
  3. lifelet
  4. lifelets
  5. lifelike
  6. lifelikeness
  7. lifeline
  8. lifelines
  9. lifeling
  10. lifelings
  11. lifelist

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