Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being lifelike; simulation of real life.

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Examples

  • It must feel exactly like life, must exhibit not, as he puts it, "lifelikeness" but "lifeness: life on the page."

    2008 November 27 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2008

  • It must feel exactly like life, must exhibit not, as he puts it, "lifelikeness" but "lifeness: life on the page."

    2008 November | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2008

  • It must feel exactly like life, must exhibit not, as he puts it, "lifelikeness" but "lifeness: life on the page."

    A conversation with William Deresiewicz’s article in The Nation…Following James Wood into the Desert… 2008

  • It must feel exactly like life, must exhibit not, as he puts it, "lifelikeness" but "lifeness: life on the page."

    Powell's Books: Overview 2009

  • Only one remained and that was Judas, whose baseness no citizen of Milan seemed to wear on his face, and to whom Leonardo began to despair of giving the absolute lifelikeness that was vital to his conception.

    The same man was the model for Jesus Christ and Judas 2009

  • Even when the quality to be valued is objectively there—coherence, clarity, accuracy or lifelikeness, what have you—its achievement is distinguished from the recognition of it, and from the even later claim that the quality is valuable.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Even when the quality to be valued is objectively there—coherence, clarity, accuracy or lifelikeness, what have you—its achievement is distinguished from the recognition of it, and from the even later claim that the quality is valuable.

    Good, better, best 2009

  • What strikes me about the Clouet portraits is the amazing detail and lifelikeness of the depictions.

    Sixteenth Century Facebook Julianne Douglas 2008

  • What strikes me about the Clouet portraits is the amazing detail and lifelikeness of the depictions.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Julianne Douglas 2008

  • This distaste for not-quite-there lifelikeness is what causes me to assert that "The Polar Express" is a horror movie.

    August 2006 2006

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