war-weariness

English

Etymology

From 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.

Alternative forms

• warweariness