boredom
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
boredom (uncountable)
- (uncountable) The state of being bored.
- 1852, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, Chapter XII
- […] only last Sunday, my Lady, in the desolation of Boredom and the clutch of Giant Despair, almost hated her own maid for being in spirits.
- 1852, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, Chapter XII
- (countable) An instance or period of being bored; A bored state.
- 1995, Martin Heidegger, William McNeill, Nicholas Walker (translators), The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude, page 107 ↗,
- 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.
- See more citations at boredoms.
- 1995, Martin Heidegger, William McNeill, Nicholas Walker (translators), The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude, page 107 ↗,
- (state of being bored) ennui
- French: ennui
- German: Langeweile
- Italian: noia, tedio
- Portuguese: aborrecimento, tédio, enfado, fastio
- Russian: ску́ка
- Spanish: aburrimiento, tedio
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