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Tiredness

Tiredness \Tired"ness\, n. The state of being tired, or weary.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tiredness

1550s, from tired + -ness.

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tiredness

n. The state of being tired.

WordNet
tiredness

n. temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work; "he was hospitalized for extreme fatigue"; "growing fatigue was apparent from the decline in the execution of their athletic skills"; "weariness overcame her after twelve hours and she fell asleep" [syn: fatigue, weariness]

Usage examples of "tiredness".

He had tried several times to speak to her while in Hes, but always she had feigned tiredness or some pressing business, and she never seemed to require his bodyguard services anymore, the way she had during their first weeks together.

Kit chuckled as she stepped to the ground and skipped in a very unmasculine fashion for the door, the tiredness in both legs forgotten.

He felt the tenseness return like bands of iron about his chest and brow, felt the tiredness seep back into his bones.

I must have come back sufficiently from death to enter a healthy tiredness again for I did not hear the policeman coming out of the bedroom again and crossing the kitchen with his unbeholdable and brain-destroying bicycle.

The huge hike of the day before had left every joint in my body aching, my muscles, especially in my calves and hamstrings stiff as well as painful, and a huge heavy weight of tiredness on my shoulders.

Rochelle lazily, his thick dreadlocked hair hanging over his face, his eyes closing with tiredness.

As he did so, his eyes fell on the box of lakeweed on the table, and curiosity overcame his tiredness.

Now the Rejects ran back through the new tunnels and on into older, established parts, keeping up a good pace for all their tiredness.

He combated his tiredness with dark coffee, and stilled hunger by devouring heavily spiced chicken satsivi with brine-pickled cabbage and red peppers.

There may be gastric disturbance, irritation of the skin and mucous membranes, impoverishment of the blood, palpitation of the heart, twinges of rheumatism, headache on the top of the head with a sense of fullness, a persistent feeling of tiredness and other symptoms of disturbed metabolism.

I put on her blue candlewick in the privacy of the bathroom, that deep physical tiredness was a rotten basis for the matter in hand.

The terrible tiredness that had been burdening me all evening gradually eased.

He steeled himself—as he'd done often enough above the canals of Venice, in years past—to ignore hunger, cold and tiredness.

The earthquake was still shaking and falling and shivering inside him and he stood there, his knees half-bent under the great load of tiredness and bewilderment and outrage, letting Beatty hit him without raising a hand.

But when Niall's mind reverted to where he had been on the previous day, and he recollected that if it had not been for the chance discovery of the crystal globe, he and the captain would still be trapped in the cave, his tiredness vanished, and he trudged forward with a new will, noting once more how the idea of misfortune could serve as a stimulant.