war-weariness

English

Etymology

war-weary +‎ -ness

Noun

war-weariness (uncountable)

  1. A state of exhaustion brought on by fighting in a war.
    • 2013, Molly Lefebure, Murder on the Home Front, →ISBN:
      Bouts of war-weariness now began to grip me from time to time, rather after the fashion of bouts of malaria.
  2. Weariness of war.
    • 2013, Martha Finnemore, The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force, →ISBN:
      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.

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