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World-weariness

noun

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

    "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."

  2. 2
    sadness on thinking about the evils of the world wordnet

Etymology

From world-weary + -ness.

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