tedium

English
Francesco Brunery's painting A Tedious Conference (19th–20th century), depicting clerics suffering from tedium during a meeting

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtiː.di.əm/
  • Rhymes: -iːdiəm

Noun

tedium (usually uncountable, plural tediums or tedia)

  1. Boredom or tediousness; ennui.
    • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 8
      Yet active life was the genuine soil for his virtues; and he sometimes suffered tedium from the monotonous succession of events in our retirement.

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