Deanimation

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The process of rendering a being inactive involves the removal of life or animation, leading to a state devoid of vitality and movement
2. A state achieved typically by halting biological functions, thus ceasing all aspects associated with life and motion
3. The act or outcome of extinguishing life in an entity, resulting in its lack of dynamism and biological activity

Etymology: Deanimation is a straightforward English formation: the prefix "de-", meaning removal or reversal, attached to "animation" in its older sense of giving life or spirit. It names the opposite process, the loss of vitality from a body or thing. That older sense comes from Latin. "Anima" meant breath, life or soul, which gave the verb "animare", to give life to, and the noun "animatio", a bringing to life. English "animation" kept that meaning of enlivening, and "deanimation" reverses it.