Tedium
noun
noun ·3 syllables ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Boredom or tediousness; ennui. uncountable, usually
"Yet active life was the genuine soil for his virtues; and he sometimes suffered tedium from the monotonous succession of events in our retirement."
- 2 dullness owing to length or slowness wordnet
- 3 the feeling of being bored by something tedious wordnet
Example
More examples"The tedium of driving across the desert makes it difficult to continuously pay attention, leading to a real danger of accidentally running off the road or crashing."
Etymology
From Latin taedium, from taedēre (“to weary”).