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Francesco Brunery's painting A Tedious Conference (19th–20th century), depicting clerics suffering from tedium during a meeting

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From Latin taedium, from taedēre (to weary).

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tedium (usually uncountable, plural tediums or tedia)

  1. Boredom or tediousness; ennui.

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