boredom

Etymology

From bore + -dom.

noun

  1. (uncountable) The state of being bored.
  2. (countable) An instance or period of being bored; A bored state.
    If we are seeking a more original conception of boredom then we must also correspondingly endeavour to envisage a more original form of boredom, thus presumably a boredom in which we become more bored than in the situation we have characterized. 1995, Martin Heidegger, William McNeill, Nicholas Walker, transl., The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude, page 107
    Yet that earlier characterization was of a kind of boredom that can be portrayed as resembling acedia; that is, a boredom that I can be held responsible for, either in its genesis or its persistence. 1999, Michael L. Raposa, Boredom and the Religious Imagination, page 58
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