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TIREDNESS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work

Example:

weariness overcame her after twelve hours and she fell asleep

Synonyms:

fatigue; tiredness; weariness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("tiredness" is a kind of...):

temporary state (a state that continues for a limited time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tiredness"):

asthenopia; eyestrain (a tiredness of the eyes caused by prolonged close work by a person with an uncorrected vision problem)

jet lag (fatigue and sleep disturbance resulting from disruption of the body's normal circadian rhythm as a result of jet travel)

exhaustion (extreme fatigue)

grogginess (a groggy state resulting from weariness)

logginess; loginess (a dull and listless state resulting from weariness)

Derivation:

tired (depleted of strength or energy)

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 Context examples: 

When tiredness, fever, and an enlarged spleen occur during the blastic phase, it is called blast crisis.

(Blast Phase Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, BCR-ABL1 Positive, NCI Dictionary)

It may also cause bronze skin, diabetes, pain in the joints and abdomen, tiredness, and impotence.

(Hemochromatosis, NCI Dictionary)

A debilitating tiredness or total lack of energy, often reported as the most common symptom in individuals with cancer.

(Cancer Fatigue, NCI Thesaurus)

Intriguingly, the genetic basis of depressive disorder also overlaps with that for obesity and multiple measures of sleep quality, including daytime sleepiness, insomnia and tiredness.

(Forty-Four Genomic Variants Linked to Major Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A phase of chronic myelogenous leukemia in which tiredness, fever, and an enlarged spleen occur during the blastic phase, when more than 30% of the cells in the blood or bone marrow are blast cells (immature blood cells).

(Blast crisis, NCI Dictionary)

It was not the dead-tiredness that comes through brief and excessive effort, from which recovery is a matter of hours; but it was the dead-tiredness that comes through the slow and prolonged strength drainage of months of toil.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)