0 a lack of enthusiasm, often because you have a lot of experience of life:
Chris carries a world-weariness in his face and his posture.
Fleming's Bond has a dark streak of world-weariness and melancholy we never get to see on screen.
Even in the slump of his shoulders we can see the world-weariness of the man.
There is no feeling of decline or even world-weariness in the trumpeter's playing, and his solos are full of constant invention and enthusiastic ideas.
He sees it as a sort of decadence, a world-weariness, and the wilful rejection of the moral boundaries governing the world.
In tandem with the slower tempo, the band dragged the syllables of each word out in order to emphasize the world-weariness of the song's lyric.
