What's the difference between tiredness and weariness?

Tiredness


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being tired, or weary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However according to the authors' experience physical tiredness can legitimately be suspected to have produced this aggravation in 47.06 % of cases of a secondarily aggravated hepatitis.
  • (2) Long shifts and tiredness are a dangerous combination.
  • (3) The reduction in inspiratory muscle performance in the whole population could be accounted for almost entirely by four subjects who developed symptoms of "tiredness" and easy fatigability while receiving propranolol.
  • (4) A last-minute winner by Wigan Athletic against Manchester City in the 2013 final had earned the Spaniard a step up to Everton, but just when his side, battling against injuries and tiredness as well as waves of United attacks, appeared to have done enough to earn extra-time at least, a killer finish by Anthony Martial, easily the game’s most eye-catching player, ended the contest with seconds to spare.
  • (5) A 60-year-old woman who for many years had been taking salicylate-containing tablets for headaches, was admitted to hospital, in a somnolent state, because of increasing weakness, tiredness, memory and speech disorders, and tinnitus.
  • (6) Subjective symptoms of venous hypertension were assessed by an analogue scale line considering four symptoms: swelling sensation, restless lower extremity, pain and cramps, and tiredness.
  • (7) Oxprenolol likewise exerted little influence on the subjective feelings of general tiredness as measured hourly during the bowling on a visual analogue scale.
  • (8) Of eight subsequent patients treated with quinidine 500 mg b.d., two experienced tiredness and nausea and one severe oral toxicity with epirubicin.
  • (9) Side-effects were minimal, and the most common side-effects emerging for both drugs were sleep disturbance and physical tiredness.
  • (10) More than twice as many dF patients as placebo patients achieved a given weight loss; but more dF patients than placebo patients had transient side-effects (tiredness, diarrhoea, dry mouth, polyuria, and drowsiness).
  • (11) Our defeat had much deeper roots than the recession, tiredness in office or a brave leader unsuited to the modern media.
  • (12) Parents most frequently attributed causes of sleep-walking and nightmares to over-tiredness and over-excitement.
  • (13) Ratings of headache and tiredness were decreased by the caffeine.
  • (14) The increasing infirmity of the aged often associated with tiredness, dyspnea and dizziness even without treatment requires careful instruction of the patient about effects and side effects of the prescribed medication.
  • (15) The ten prominent-symptoms method revealed that subjective symptoms such as nervousness, sleep difficulties, and tiredness were experienced as greater problems than diarrhea.
  • (16) The most common side effect was tiredness (3.7%), which was reported to be mild in some cases.
  • (17) Smoking was associated with poor health, fatigue, school tiredness, school performance below the average, frequent contacts with friends outside school and at night, difficulties in discussion with parents, ease in discussions with friends, and with having close friends.
  • (18) Flu is particularly unpleasant for children, potentially causing a fever, sore throat, aching muscles, extreme tiredness and even complications such as bronchitis and pneumonia.
  • (19) There was a significant difference in subjective feelings of tiredness and drowsiness recorded by the two study groups at 24 hours.
  • (20) The presenting symptoms were syncope (4 cases), dizziness (2 cases), effort angina (1 case) and tiredness (3 cases); 1 patient was asymptomatic.

Weariness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being weary or tried; lassitude; exhaustion of strength; fatigue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
  • (2) Portugal's slide towards a Greek-style second bailout accelerated after its principal private lenders indicated that they were growing weary of assurances from Lisbon that it could get on top of the country's debts.
  • (3) SUNS 104, TIMBERWOLVES 95 In Phoenix, Grant Hill scored 15 of his season-best 20 points in the second half as Phoenix pulled away to beat weary Minnesota.
  • (4) Ectopic pregnancy on the vaginal portio in a 31-year-old woman weari ng and IUD is reported.
  • (5) The Coalition is appealing to the same change-weary voters with the message that Turnbull is a better bet to deliver economic and political stability and Shorten is untested, uninspiring and a risk.
  • (6) There is also world-weariness about such crackdowns.
  • (7) The now 8th Earl of Lucan has treated such sightings with weary equanimity, once saying: “I get a little tired when former Scotland Yard detectives at the end of their careers get commissions to write books which happen to send them to sunny destinations around the world.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest War weary Syrian refugees plead to cross channel through Eurotunnel at Calais.
  • (9) They are weary of being marginalised and no longer being considered in decisions made by management, so they will support action even if they know that it is not over the real issues.
  • (10) He sighs, though whether this is out of weariness and regret, or impatience at my line of questioning, is difficult to tell.
  • (11) But senior administration officials, with a sense of weary resignation, also called on people to put the leaks into context and insisted they had not done serious damage to US relations.
  • (12) Both sides, wearied by decades of fruitless diplomacy, cautioned that an initial meeting – scheduled for the "next week or so" in Washington, according to Kerry – will not automatically lead to productive negotiations.
  • (13) It’s hard to understand the photo’s power in 1945 to Americans, who were weary of the war and horrified by the incredible number of deaths by servicemen, especially in Asian locations most had never heard of, Buell said.
  • (14) 'I couldn't imagine a worse scenario than not enjoying being Thor, because it's gonna consume a good 10 years of my life' Hemsworth, a gentle giant who seems both grateful and gracious, talks passionately about Thor, with no winking and no weariness.
  • (15) And weary opposition forces don’t like what they are seeing.
  • (16) Journalists and the public roll their eyes as he makes yet another passive-aggressive claim that referees are against him, directors tire of his constant hustling and players perhaps weary of his intensity.
  • (17) Despite the world-weary tone of a brutal review in the New York Times, which suggested that it added nothing new to the "groaning shelf" of homosexual literature, a story with an unashamedly gay protagonist unleashed a storm of protest in a country where sodomy was still illegal.
  • (18) His most celebrated aphorism was his response to a journalist who wondered whether Christian Democrats would ever be weary of wielding power: "Political power wears out only those who haven't got it."
  • (19) Obviously, there are some shops where fidgetty child fingers are more inappropriate than others, and I really am sorry to that off-licence, and I would have paid for the bottle of wine we smashed‚ except the weary young man on the till insisted I didn't have to, with the hardened air of a man who had mopped up a few rivers of glass and alcohol in his time.
  • (20) The final draft of the report from a panel of the world's top climate scientists paints a wild future for a world already weary of weather catastrophes costing billions of dollars.