boredom

noun
/ˈbɔː.dəm/UK/ˈbɔɹ.dəm/US

Etymology

From bore + -dom.

  1. inherited from *burōną
  2. inherited from *borōn
  3. inherited from borian — “to pierce
  4. inherited from boren
  5. suffixed as boredom — “bore + dom

Definitions

  1. The state of being bored.

    • The House had just broke up, and the political members had just entered, and in clusters, some standing, and some yawning, some stretching their arms, and some stretching their legs, presented symptoms of an escape from boredom.
    • [O]nly last Sunday, my Lady, in the desolation of Boredom and the clutch of Giant Despair, almost hated her own maid for being in spirits.
  2. An instance or period of being bored

    An instance or period of being bored; a bored state.

    • 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.
    • See more citations at boredoms.
  3. The state of being a bore.

    • Neither will I follow another precedental mode of boredom, and indulge in a laudatory apostrophe to the destinies which presided over my fashioning.
    • The complete art of boredom.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at boredom. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01boredom02bored03annoyed04annoyance05annoying06annoy07bother08burden09wearisome10tiresome

A definitional loop anchored at boredom. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at boredom

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA