Tedium

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.

I found myself reaching for my phone to alleviate the tedium of being lectured at.

Tom and Mary went skinny-dipping in the river to break up the tedium of everyday life.

Railroad rides are naturally tiresome to persons who cannot read on the cars, and, being one of those unfortunates, I resigned myself, on taking my seat in the train, to several hours of tedium, alleviated only by such cat-naps as I might achieve.

Your language sounds tedious. Your brains are full of tedium.

Yet active life was the genuine soil for his virtues; and he sometimes suffered tedium from the monotonous succession of events in our retirement.

Nothing actual ever suits pure expectation and such purity of expectation is a great source of tedium.