lifelike
adjective
resembling or simulating real life.
lifelikeness
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a word derived from
lifelike.
Example Sentences
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Just as Chekhov’s stories, beneath their veneer of lifelikeness, have a boiled-down, biblical simplicity, Hopper’s interiors are shorn of detail.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2019
It’s the kind of lifelikeness that could only come from showrunners steeped in Haredi society.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 14, 2019
It fails to achieve the lifelikeness, not to mention the dramatic intensity, that Ibsen bequeathed as a legacy, or rather one of his legacies, to modern playwriting.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2015
In the end, she discovered that bringing a dead animal to lifelikeness isn’t so different from her career in fashion design.
From Washington Post
The consistency of the leading characters is wonderful, and there is not one of the twenty-five, except possibly Dora--who is not human enough--that is not the perfection of lifelikeness....
From A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 by Mrs. Humphry Ward
