ennuiliterary

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
boredom
cabin fever
commonplace
ennui
flatness
frustration
insipidness
jejune
same
screed
snooze
snoozefest
sterility
stodginess
the same old thingidiom
torpor
turgid
yawningly

Examples of tedium

tedium
On the other, torments surface about restricted occupational prospects and tedium.
Resolving other mundane issues is currently a matter of sheer tedium.
We did not ask the other two to re-annotate the data from scratch because of the tedium of the segmentation task.
Two new dilemmas were presented each year to avoid tedium and repetition of answers.
It is of no use addressing them with the forms of science, or the rigour of accuracy, or the tedium of exhaustive discussion.
Making the same point over and over again inevitably causes a sense of tedium.
Its sheer tedium was that it considered artefacts from a purely technical point of view.
Some felt tedious, before the tedium was broken by a voice or a movement.
The length of his response, however, the tedium of detail, both missed the target and failed to capture the reader.
For example, candidness about tedium would seem unbefitting any committed educator.
During the repetitive tedium we contemplate the relationships between our code, its behaviour and our desires: the domain of programming language semantics.
Or, as was stated earlier, workers might have defined ' challenge ' to mean the pressures and tedium of factory work which they always experience.
In this sense, it was a species of religious art, in which blandness, anonymity and tedium were by no means vices.
Placed in this narrative context, the daily tedium of routine and repetition takes on new meaning and becomes endurable.
However, reducing technical detail to spare tedium can never be an excuse for inaccuracy or, indeed, for getting things plain wrong.
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