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world-weariness en · NOUN

Etymology

From world-weary + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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:

Relateds

weight of the world

Synonyms

weltschmerz · apathy · jadedness

Translations (21)

de Weltschmerz (characteristic of being world-weary) · uk світова́ скорбо́та (characteristic of being world-weary) · hu világfájdalom (characteristic of being world-weary) · uk світови́й біль (characteristic of being world-weary) · cs světabol (characteristic of being world-weary) · es weltschmerz (characteristic of being world-weary) · sk svetobôľ (characteristic of being world-weary) · nl weltschmerz (characteristic of being world-weary) · is heimshryggð (characteristic of being world-weary) · fi maailmantuska (characteristic of being world-weary) · hy համաշխարհային վիշտ (characteristic of being world-weary) · pl Weltschmerz (characteristic of being world-weary) · be сусве́тны сму́так (characteristic of being world-weary) · sv världströtthet (characteristic of being world-weary) · eo mondopereo (characteristic of being world-weary) · sv världssmärta (characteristic of being world-weary) · bg ми́рова скръб (characteristic of being world-weary) · ru мирова́я скорбь (characteristic of being world-weary) · cmn 厭世 /厌世 (characteristic of being world-weary) · mk велтшмерц (characteristic of being world-weary) · he צַעַר הָעוֹלָם (characteristic of being world-weary)