SuaviloquyToday’s word

weariness

Weariness, n.

The quality or state of being weary or tried; lassitude; exhaustion of strength; fatigue. With weariness and wine oppressed. Dryden. A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft over and over. Bacon.

Shades of meaning

Fernald lists weariness only as an antonym, under entertainment.

He lists it without comment; the entries above explain its neighbors.

Synonyms

none given