Dead Heart

noun

1. the Dead Heart
   the remote interior of Australia

Word History and Origins

Origin of Dead Heart¹

C20: from the title The Dead Heart of Australia (1906) by J. W. Gregory (1864–1932), British geologist

Example Sentences

“We’ve got the richness of emptiness which for some reason was known as the dead heart,” Mr. Olsen said in 2016 at the opening of a major retrospective of his six-decade career.

From New York Times

That path uses cutting-edge gene editing to replace dead heart cells with new ones engineered to reduce arrhythmias.

From Washington Post

Jaíne feels it, and I guess my cold dead heart still does as well.

From Salon

I'm nearly 50 years old, with a cold, dead heart, but that kitchen still gets me.

From Salon

It was the Egyptian belief that after a person died, Anubis, the jackal-headed god of embalming, led the deceased to the judgment hall of Osiris, where the dead heart was weighed against a feather of Maat, the personification of truth, justice and the cosmic order.

From New York Times