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

[ Syn: unresponsiveness ]

the physical property of something that has lost its elasticity; he objected to the deadness of the tennis balls'

the inanimate property of something that has died