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boringness

noun

Etymology

From boring + -ness.

  1. inherited from boryng — “making a hole”
  2. suffixed as boringness — “boring + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or condition of being boring.

    • Instinctively, before they had a chance to open their mouths, she knew not only that they were bores but the quality of their boringness.
    • More than one critic has said, of course, that the boringness of the "New Novel" is a feature of its authenticity.
    • An Analysis of Superficial Boredom and Its Relation to the Boring Object Heidegger does not begin his analysis of "superficial boredom" with boredom itself but with what is boring, or the boringness of a boring object.

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