war-weariness

noun

Etymology

From war-weary + -ness.

Definitions

  1. A state of exhaustion brought on by fighting in a war.

    • Bouts of war-weariness now began to grip me from time to time, rather after the fashion of bouts of malaria.
  2. Weariness of war.

    • One common imputed cause of this changed attitude toward force in the nineteenth century and the anomalous peace of that century in general is war-weariness.

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