war-weariness en · NOUN
Etymology
From war-weary + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) 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.
2013, Molly Lefebure, Murder on the Home Front, →ISBN:
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(uncountable) 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.
2013, Martha Finnemore, The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force, →ISBN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| warweariness | alternative | lexicographic |