tedium

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

the state of being unhappy and uninterested
boredomThere's nothing to do at the cabin - I might die of boredom.
tediumFilming a televison show involves a fair bit of waiting and tedium behind the scenes.
tediousnessI can't imagine the tediousness of cataloguing every single piece of writing in the archive.
wearinessShe listened to his complaining with a growing sense of weariness.
ennuiHis latest book was about suburban ennui and the middle-aged desire for something new.
drearinessShe wanted to go to the big city and escape the dreariness of her rural, small-town life.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Boredom, tedium and boring things
banality
blandness
cabin fever
commonplace
crashing bore
flatness
frustration
insipidness
jejune
longueur
screed
snooze
snoozefest
sterility
stodginess
stuffiness
the same old thingidiom
torpor
turgid
yawningly

boredom | American Dictionary

boredom
noun[ U ]
us/ˈbɔr·dəm, ˈboʊrd-/
when you are bored:
She varies her workouts to avoid boredom.

Examples of boredom

boredom
The problem of boredom as a health care issue has been subsumed under research on other complaints such as depression, apathy, or fatigue.
The participants described loss of attention as loss of interest, boredom or even laziness, and non-task related and repeated performances of attention went unnoticed.
On the other hand, the younger groups scored higher for boredom reduction, identity problems (trying to understand oneself) and bitterness revival.
Excessive fatigue has combined with boredom to depress me during the day.
Although complaints of boredom are common in clinical psycholog y and psychiatry, they are of ten addressed under other more traditional labels.
These women experienced boredom, felt socially isolated and had little time away from their care responsibilities.
Unlike the unfortunate victims of disease, who languished in the stations' isolation hospitals, healthy detainees were often burdened by boredom and frustration.
Thus, boredom had a unique impact on quality of life apar t f rom depression.
The table of boredom was a routine family meal.
He is anxious for a project (whether because of boredom, self-interest, benevolence, or some combination of these).
Reasons included boredom or unwillingness to participate on the part of the child, or absenteeism on one or more days of testing.
Since these subjects were all adults, and the task not especially lengthy, there may have been little forgetting or boredom.
It would induce boredom, reduce creativity and result in even more illiteracy.
Meanwhile, 'disinterested' can be appropriated to the context of boredom, which is a much more common phenomenon.
Every one of us has experienced boredom during religious services, graduation ceremonies, weddings, or funerals.
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