war-weariness noun2 •A state of exhaustion brought on by fighting in a war.Bouts of war-weariness now began to grip me from time to time, rather after the fashion of bouts of malaria. — 2013 •Weariness of war.One common imputed cause of this changed attitude toward force in the nineteenth century and the anomalous peace of that century in general is war-weariness. — 2013