tedium
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Latin taedium, from taedēre (“to weary”).
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tedium (usually uncountable, plural tediums or tedia)
- Boredom or tediousness; ennui.
- 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter VIII, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
- Yet active life was the genuine soil for his virtues; and he sometimes suffered tedium from the monotonous succession of events in our retirement.
- 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 192:
- Nothing actual ever suits pure expectation and such purity of expectation is a great source of tedium.
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boredom or tediousness; ennui
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