Also spelled life-like
adj
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closely resembling a real living person, animal, scene, or event
The museum displayed a lifelike model of a woolly mammoth.
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lifelikeness
Etymology
A compound of life + -like, meaning 'having the appearance or qualities of life.' It has described realistic representations since the seventeenth century.