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worldweariness

worldweariness is the alternative form of world-weariness.

Meaning of world-weariness

Noun

world-weariness (uncountable)

  1. The state or characteristic of being world-weary; a feeling of fatigue or exhaustion with the state of the world or with one's life.
    • Call me blasé—I do not mind, if by blasé is meant the world-weariness, intellectual, artistic, sensational, which can come to a young man of thirty. For I was thirty, and I was weary of all these things—weary and in doubt.1914, Jack London, chapter 8, in The Mutiny of the Elsinore

Questions about worldweariness

What is worldweariness the alternative form of?
Worldweariness is the alternative form of world-weariness.

Words near worldweariness in the dictionary

  1. worldvolumes
  2. worldward
  3. worldwards
  4. worldwearier
  5. worldweariest
  6. worldweariness
  7. worldweary
  8. worldwide
  9. worldwidely
  10. worldwideness
  11. worldwisdom

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