Weariness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Weariness \Wea"ri*ness\, n.
     The quality or state of being weary or tried; lassitude;
     exhaustion of strength; fatigue.
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           With weariness and wine oppressed.       --Dryden.


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           A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor
           miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing
           so oft over and over.                    --Bacon.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  weariness
       n : temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard
           physical or mental work; "he was hospitalized for extreme
           fatigue"; "growing fatigue was apparent from the decline
           in the execution of their athletic skills"; "weariness
           overcame her after twelve hours and she fell asleep"
           [syn: {fatigue}, {tiredness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "weariness":
     acedia, adynamia, anemia, apathy, atony, blah feeling,
     bloodlessness, boredness, boredom, brain fag, bromidic, cachexia,
     cachexy, cowardice, debilitation, debility, dispiritedness,
     drowsiness, dry, dryasdust, dull, dullness, dusty, enervation,
     enfeeblement, ennui, etiolation, exhaustion, eyestrain, faintness,
     fatigue, fed-upness, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, goneness,
     heart strain, heaviness, hebetude, impotence, inanimation,
     indifference, insipid, jadedness, lackadaisicalness, languidness,
     languishment, languor, languorousness, lassitude, lenitude, lentor,
     lethargy, life-weariness, lifelessness, listlessness, melancholy,
     mental fatigue, mental strain, oscitancy, overstrain,
     overtiredness, passivity, phlegm, prostration, satedness,
     satiation, satiety, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness,
     sluggishness, softness, somnolence, spleen, stance fatigue, strain,
     strengthlessness, stupefaction, stupor, supineness, taedium vitae,
     tedious, tiredness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor,
     uninteresting, weakliness, weakness, weariful, wearifulness,
     world-weariness