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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Weariness \Wea"ri*ness\, noun The quality or state of being weary or tried; lassitude; exhaustion of strength; fatigue.
With weariness and wine oppressed. --Dryden.
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
weariness
noun: 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
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