boredom

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   the feeling of being bored by something tedious

Etymology

From bore + -dom.