world-weariness definition

English

Noun

world-weariness (uncountable)

1. The state or characteristic of being world-weary.
   • 1914, Jack London, chapter 8, in The Mutiny of the Elsinore:

     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.

Synonyms

• apathy, jadedness, weltschmerz

Translations

See also

• weight of the world