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world-weariness

noun

Etymology

From world-weary + -ness.

  1. inherited from *wōrīg✻
  2. inherited from wēriġ — “weary”
  3. inherited from wery
  4. compounded as world-weary — “world + weary”
  5. suffixed as world-weariness — “world-weary + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or characteristic of being world-weary.

    • 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.

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