Tedium

noun

noun ·3 syllables ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    dullness owing to length or slowness wordnet
  3. 3
    the feeling of being bored by something tedious wordnet

Synonyms

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boredomboredomennuitediousnesstediousnesstiresomeness

Example

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"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”).

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