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say it: WIR-ee-nuhs
weariness is a noun meaning "temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work". It is pronounced /ˈwɪɹinəs/ — WIR-ee-nuhs. It carries one recorded sense.
temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work
“he was hospitalized for extreme fatigue”
“growing fatigue was apparent from the decline in the execution of their athletic skills”
“weariness overcame her after twelve hours and she fell asleep”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for weariness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.