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[syn: fatigue, weariness, tiredness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
weariness
n 1: 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, weariness, tiredness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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