tiredness

nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,896 of 15,258neutral

Tiredness is the state of needing rest. Overcome with tiredness, sheer tiredness, tiredness at the wheel.

It names the feeling rather than the cause, so tiredness can come from work, illness or bad sleep alike. Road safety campaigns use it because fatigue sounds too technical.

Definitions of tiredness

1nountirednessThe state of needing rest.B2+
“Tiredness at the wheel causes more crashes than most people think.”

tiredness is a state.

Where it comes from

Tired plus -ness, from Old English teorian, to fail or grow weary.

Middle English
tiredness
English, today
tiredness

From Middle English tiredness, terednesse, equivalent to tired + ness.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

tiredness in the wild

Symptoms include enlarged lymph nodes, fever, night sweats, weight loss, and tiredness.
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
The word fatigue is used in two contexts: in the medical sense, and in the sense of normal tiredness.
Fatigue
In the sense of tiredness, fatigue often follows prolonged physical or mental activity.
Fatigue
The most commonly reported adverse events include upper respiratory tract infections, joint pain, diarrhea, and tiredness.
Ezetimibe
When tiredness, fever, and an enlarged spleen occur during the blastic phase, it is called blast crisis.
Blastic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia

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