Boredom

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Boredom \Bore"dom\, n.
     1. The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.
        --Dickens.
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     2. The realm of bores; bores, collectively.


        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  boredom
       n : the feeling of being bored by something tedious [syn: {ennui},
            {tedium}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  117 Moby Thesaurus words for "boredom":
     acedia, aloofness, angst, anguish, anxiety, apathy, boredness,
     carelessness, cheerlessness, detachment, discomfort, discomposure,
     discontent, disgust, disinterest, disinterestedness, dislike,
     dispiritedness, displeasure, disquiet, dissatisfaction, distaste,
     doldrums, dread, dreariness, drowsiness, dullness, emptiness,
     enervation, ennui, existential woe, fatigue, fed-upness, flatness,
     grimness, heaviness, hebetude, heedlessness, impassiveness,
     impassivity, inanimation, incuriosity, incuriousness, indifference,
     indifferentism, indifferentness, inquietude, insouciance,
     intellectual inertia, jadedness, joylessness, lack of interest,
     lack of pleasure, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment,
     languor, languorousness, lassitude, lenitude, lentor, lethargy,
     life-weariness, lifelessness, listlessness, malaise, melancholy,
     monotony, nausea, nongratification, nonsatisfaction, oscitancy,
     painfulness, passivity, phlegm, regardlessness, satedness,
     satiation, satiety, savorlessness, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness,
     slowness, sluggishness, somnolence, spleen, staleness, stolidity,
     stupefaction, stupor, supineness, taedium vitae, tastelessness,
     tediousness, tedium, tiredness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude,
     torpor, uncomfortableness, unconcern, unease, uneasiness,
     unhappiness, uninquisitiveness, uninterestedness, unmindfulness,
     unpleasure, unsatisfaction, vexation of spirit, wearifulness,
     weariness, withdrawal, world-weariness, yawn