Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being lifelike; simulation of real life.
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Examples
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It must feel exactly like life, must exhibit not, as he puts it, "lifelikeness" but "lifeness: life on the page."
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It must feel exactly like life, must exhibit not, as he puts it, "lifelikeness" but "lifeness: life on the page."
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It must feel exactly like life, must exhibit not, as he puts it, "lifelikeness" but "lifeness: life on the page."
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It must feel exactly like life, must exhibit not, as he puts it, "lifelikeness" but "lifeness: life on the page."
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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.
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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
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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
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What strikes me about the Clouet portraits is the amazing detail and lifelikeness of the depictions.
Sixteenth Century Facebook Julianne Douglas 2008
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What strikes me about the Clouet portraits is the amazing detail and lifelikeness of the depictions.
Archive 2008-07-01 Julianne Douglas 2008
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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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