lifelessness

Then his eyes found it: a seedling, brittle and brown, overlooked because of its lifelessness.

Something about the way the taxidermist positioned the tiger or the haunting lifelessness of its eyes.

Working each day in the cold and wind, I became accustomed to the lifelessness.

Less intriguingly convoluted than concussed into lifelessness, “Marlowe” is the cinematic equivalent of a word salad: It parrots all the right lines while striking all the right poses, without saying much of anything at all.

Many Native communities prefer the term “collections space” over “storage” because the latter implies lifelessness and inactivity.