lifelikeness

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noun

Quality of being lifelike.

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Meanings

nounlifelikeness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableQuality 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

From lifelike + -ness.

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APA

lifelikeness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lifelikeness

MLA

“lifelikeness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lifelikeness. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lifelikeness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lifelikeness.

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