tedium

noun
/ˈtiː.di.əm/UK

Etymology

From Latin taedium, from taedēre (“to weary”).

  1. borrowed from taedium

Definitions

  1. Boredom or tediousness

    Boredom or tediousness; ennui.

    • Yet active life was the genuine soil for his virtues; and he sometimes suffered tedium from the monotonous succession of events in our retirement.
    • Nothing actual ever suits pure expectation and such purity of expectation is a great source of tedium.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tedium. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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