WEARINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weariness mean? 

• WEARINESS (noun)
  The noun WEARINESS has 1 sense:

1. temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work

  Familiarity information: WEARINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEARINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

fatigue; tiredness; weariness

Context example:

weariness overcame her after twelve hours and she fell asleep

Hypernyms ("weariness" is a kind of...):

temporary state (a state that continues for a limited time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "weariness"):

asthenopia; eyestrain (a tiredness of the eyes caused by prolonged close work by a person with an uncorrected vision problem)

jet lag (fatigue and sleep disturbance resulting from disruption of the body's normal circadian rhythm as a result of jet travel)

exhaustion (extreme fatigue)

grogginess (a groggy state resulting from weariness)

logginess; loginess (a dull and listless state resulting from weariness)

Derivation:

weary (physically and mentally fatigued)

 Context examples 

It said nothing of her weariness and watching, and praised him highly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was not so much a groan of pain, as of pain-weariness.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Possibly this appearance was due to the weariness of the slender neck, unable properly to support so great a burden.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

If she was tired of his visits, she concealed her weariness with perfect skill, and took care that there should be coffee for supper, "as Friedrich—I mean Mr. Bhaer—doesn't like tea."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There was no zest in the thought of departure, while the act of departure appalled him as a weariness of the flesh.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He entered with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into the armchair which I pushed forward for him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I slept very little, for the disquiets of my mind prevailed over my weariness, and kept me awake.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

They began to walk again, but they always came deeper into the forest, and if help did not come soon, they must die of hunger and weariness.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It was imputed to very reasonable weariness, and she was thanked and pitied; but she deserved their pity more than she hoped they would ever surmise.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Overpowered by this time with weariness, I scarcely noticed what sort of a place the bedroom was, except that, like the schoolroom, I saw it was very long.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)