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tiredness

tiredness

10 1.0
A feeling of not having energy after physical or mental work
  • noun
  • /ˈtaɪərdnəs/
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  • After a long day at work, I often come home feeling a sense of tiredness that makes it hard to focus on chores.
  • feelings of tiredness
  • excessive tiredness
  • tiredness or fatigue

So what's the biology of tiredness, infection?

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Examples

  • What is causing this tiredness in my life?

  • You must certainly suffer from moments of extreme tiredness.

  • "As done as I can be," she said, the tiredness back in her voice.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • So you need to wake yourself up early, suffer through a day of tiredness and go to bed earlier that night.

  • The only way I felt almost OK was to lie down in bed and the tiredness that went with it was so extreme.

  • Around half of patients who present with tiredness think that their problem is psychological.

    Academic text (2012)
  • My arms and legs were burning with tiredness.

  • That's the level of tiredness I have today.

  • Fever, aches, chills, and tiredness.

  • Discouraged, she sat in the whirlpool, letting the tiredness seep out of her bones.

    Fiction book (1999)

Synonyms

fatigue
vstiredness
92 4.2

A feeling of tiredness and low energy after hard work

is the general state of temporary energy lack from effort rather than a technical label
exhaustion
vstiredness
78 3.6

Extreme physical or mental tiredness after hard work

describes a milder, temporary loss of strength from effort rather than extreme collapse
weariness
vstiredness
20 3.1

A strong feeling of being very tired in body or mind

is the broad temporary lack of energy from effort, not only after heavy work
lethargy
vstiredness
12 6.3

A feeling of tiredness and low energy

is the temporary energy loss from effort rather than illness linked inactivity
lassitude
vstiredness
  • Formal
3 9.3

A feeling of being very tired and having little energy

focuses on plain temporary energy loss rather than an added drop in interest
enervation
vstiredness
9.1

A feeling of great weakness and tiredness

is the temporary energy loss from effort rather than a profound bodily weakness
overtiredness
vstiredness
4.9

Being very tired so you cannot sleep and feel restless or easily annoyed

is the usual temporary lack of energy from effort, not necessarily excessive or sleep disturbed

Antonyms

energy
  • Specialized
1.6

Power from things like electricity or fuel used to make machines work

29 4.3

Energy and liveliness that make a person or thing seem active

How Tired

exhaustion
78 3.6
fatigue
92 4.2
tiredness
10 1.0
sleepiness
8 1.0

Surface Forms

tiredness singular
tirednesses plural

Morphology

tiredness = tired (transparent) = tire + ed + ness

Formed by adding the nominalizing suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'tired', yielding the state or condition 'the state of being tired'.

Etymology

Tiredness comes from the verb tire, which long ago came from the old French word tirer meaning 'to pull' or 'to drag'. So you can remember tiredness as the feeling of being 'pulled down' after work or effort, and that is why it means a lack of energy.