Boredom can make you do crazy things, like watching terrible old game shows on television or eating the bag of chocolate chips you find in the freezer. The feeling of being bored or uninterested in what you're doing is boredom.
The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.
Noun
the feeling of being bored by something tedious
n.
The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.
n.
The realm of bores; bores, collectively.
Boredom
The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.
Usage Examples
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Other Usage ExamplesIdle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is.
Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
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