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
That recording is then used to animate a creature whose movements have a peculiar lifelikeness.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2017
It permitted likenesses of a limited sort, but lifelikeness was beyond it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nor is the secret of their lifelikeness hard to discern.
From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by Paul Elmer More
