Ennui

3 definitions found

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

  Ennui \En`nui"\, n. [F., fr. L. in odio in hatred. See {Annoy}.]
     A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of
     spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium.
     --T. Gray.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

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

  101 Moby Thesaurus words for "ennui":
     acedia, angst, anguish, anxiety, apathy, blues, boredness, boredom,
     cheerlessness, dejection, depression, discomfort, discomposure,
     discontent, dislike, dispiritedness, displeasure, disquiet,
     dissatisfaction, doldrums, dread, drowsiness, dullness, dumps,
     emptiness, enervation, existential woe, fatigue, fed-upness,
     flatness, grimness, heaviness, hebetude, inanimation, indifference,
     inquietude, jadedness, joylessness, lack of pleasure,
     lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languor,
     languorousness, lassitude, lenitude, lentor, lethargy,
     life-weariness, lifelessness, listlessness, malaise, melancholy,
     nausea, nongratification, nonsatisfaction, oscitancy, painfulness,
     pall, passivity, phlegm, sadness, satedness, satiation, satiety,
     savorlessness, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness,
     sluggishness, somnolence, spiritlessness, spleen, staleness,
     stupefaction, stupor, supineness, surfeit, taedium vitae,
     tastelessness, tediousness, tedium, tire, tiredness, torpidity,
     torpidness, torpitude, torpor, uncomfortableness, unease,
     uneasiness, unhappiness, unpleasure, unsatisfaction,
     vexation of spirit, wearifulness, weariness, weary,
     world-weariness, yawn