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
The single scenes and pictures which Boswell has given us will all of them bear close scrutiny for their precision, their economy of means, their lifelikeness, their artistic effect.
From Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by Osgood, Charles Grosvenor
