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world-weariness

NOUN
  1. sadness on thinking about the evils of the world

How To Use world-weariness In A Sentence

  • The plot, observing the classical unity of time by taking place in a 24-hour period, is the barest of sketches, a pretext for the feelings of sadness, world-weariness, and desperate hope.
  • Call me blase -- I do not mind, if by blase is meant the world-weariness, intellectual, artistic, sensational, which can come to a young man of thirty. CHAPTER VIII
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