Boredom

//ˈbɔɹ.dəm// noun

noun ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being bored. uncountable, usually

    "The House had just broke up, and the political members had just entered, and in clusters, some standing, and some yawning, some stretching their arms, and some stretching their legs, presented symptoms of an escape from boredom."

  2. 2
    the feeling of being bored by something tedious wordnet
  3. 3
    An instance or period of being bored; a bored state. countable, usually

    "If we are seeking a more original conception of boredom then we must also correspondingly endeavour to envisage a more original form of boredom, thus presumably a boredom in which we become more bored than in the situation we have characterized."

  4. 4
    The state of being a bore. obsolete, rare, uncountable, usually

    "Neither will I follow another precedental mode of boredom, and indulge in a laudatory apostrophe to the destinies which presided over my fashioning."

Synonyms

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ennuiennuitediumacediaaloofnessangst

Example

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"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is."

Etymology

From bore + -dom.

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