[f. prec. + -NESS.]
† 1. The condition of being tired; weariness. Obs. rare.
1646. Trapp, Comm. John i. 10. For thou hast created all things,… without help, tool, or tiresomeness.
1715. Nelson, trans. T. à Kempis Chr. Exerc., III. xvii. 146. Give me … good occupation … against the Tiresomness and Drowsiness of the Heart.
2. The quality of being tiresome; wearisomeness, tediousness.
1668. H. More, Div. Dial., II. xxiii. (1713), 162. The tiresomeness of the Fight makes the Victory more pleasant and sensible.
1817. Mar. Edgeworth, On Bores, ¶ 11. Others are not endured long enough in society to come to the perfection of tiresomeness.
