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
Throughout the entire film there is not a break in Brando's almost magical lifelikeness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Room is found, in this language, only for a partial lifelikeness, for some of the truth, a scanty portion, and which constant refining daily renders still more scanty.
From The Ancient Regime by John Durand
