warweariness

English

Noun

warweariness (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of war-weariness
   • 1987, Richard N. Rosecrance, The Rise of the Trading State: Commerce and Conquest in the Modern World, →ISBN, page 87:

     The European Concert of Powers leagued together to cooperate while warweariness and the common fear of revolution remained to worry conservative states.

   • 2013, John Dos Passos, Mr. Wilson's War, →ISBN:

     In the business world certain tolerances and understandings had grown up between enemy states despite the daily massacre on the front lines. Warweariness was the prevailing mood.

   • 2013 September 13, Sebastian Junger, “A Syria strike in the name of peace”, in Washington Post:

     Iraq hangs heavy over the American psyche and contributes to the war­weariness, but the 2003 invasion was not an intervention to stop an ongoing conflict.