Tedium

4 definitions found

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

  Tedium \Te"di*um\, n. [L. taedium, fr. taedet it disgusts, it
     wearies one.]
     Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness. [Written also
     {taedium}.] --Cowper.
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           To relieve the tedium, he kept plying them with all
           manner of bams.                          --Prof.
                                                    Wilson.
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           The tedium of his office reminded him more strongly of
           the willing scholar, and his thoughts were rambling.
                                                    --Dickens.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tedium
       n 1: the feeling of being bored by something tedious [syn: {boredom},
             {ennui}]
       2: dullness owing to length or slowness [syn: {tediousness}, {tiresomeness}]

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

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "tedium":
     alliteration, angst, anguish, anxiety, assonance, banality,
     boredom, changelessness, cheerlessness, chime, colorlessness,
     dingdong, discomfort, discomposure, discontent, dislike,
     displeasure, disquiet, dissatisfaction, doldrums, drabness, dread,
     dreariness, drone, dullness, emptiness, ennui, existential woe,
     flatness, grimness, harping, humdrum, inquietude, insipidity,
     insipidness, invariability, irksomeness, jingle, jingle-jangle,
     joylessness, lack of pleasure, long-windedness, malaise, monotone,
     monotony, nausea, near rhyme, nongratification, nonsatisfaction,
     painfulness, pitter-patter, repeated sounds, repetitiousness,
     repetitiveness, rhyme, routine, savorlessness, singsong,
     slant rhyme, spleen, stale repetition, staleness, tastelessness,
     tediousness, tiresomeness, trot, uncomfortableness, unease,
     uneasiness, unhappiness, unnecessary repetition, unpleasure,
     unsatisfaction, vapidity, vexation of spirit, wearisomeness,
     yawn
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  TEDIUM, n.  Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored.  Many
  fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an
  authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious
  source -- the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum
  Laudamus_.  In this apparently natural derivation there is something
  that saddens.