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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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