boredom

English

Etymology

bore +‎ -dom

Noun

Wikipedia boredom (usually uncountable; plural boredoms)

1. (uncountable) The state of being bored.
2. (countable) An instance or period of a state of being bored; a variety of bored state.
   • 1995, Martin Heidegger, William McNeill, Nicholas Walker (translators), The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude, page 107,

     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.

   • 1999, Michael L. Raposa, Boredom and the Religious Imagination, page 58,

     Yet that earlier characterization was of a kind of boredom that can be portrayed as resembling acedia; that is, a boredom that I can be held responsible for, either in its genesis or its persistence.

   • See more citations at boredoms.

Related terms

• bored
• boring

See also

• accidie
• acedia
• ennui

Translations

state of being bored

• Arabic: مللّ (ar) (malall) m
• Armenian: ձանձրույթ (hy) (janjruytʿ)
• Bulgarian: скука (bg) (skúka) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無聊 (cmn), 无聊 (cmn) (wúliáo), 乏味 (cmn) (fáwèi), 無趣 (cmn), 无趣 (cmn) (wúqù)

• Czech: nuda (cs) f
• Danish: kedsomhed (da) c
• Dutch: verveling (nl) f
• Esperanto: enuo (eo)
• Finnish: tylsyys, ikävystyminen
• French: ennui (fr) m
• Georgian: მოწყენილობა (ka) (mocqeniloba)
• German: Langeweile (de) f
• Greek: πλήξη (el) (plíxi) f, βαρεμάρα (el) (varemára) f, ανία (el) (anía) f
• Hebrew: שִׁעְמוּם (he) (shi'amum) m
• Hindi: बोरियत (hi) (boriyat) f
• Hungarian: unalom (hu)

• Italian: noia (it) f, tedio (it) m
• Japanese: 退屈 (ja) (たいくつ, taikutsu)
• Korean: 갑갑증 (ko) (gapgapjeung), 지루함 (ko) (jiruham)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: بێزاری

• Latvian: garlaicība (lv) f, garlaiks (lv) m
• Malay: bosan
• Norwegian: kjedsomhet (no)
• Polish: nuda (pl) f
• Portuguese: aborrecimento (pt) m, tédio (pt) m
• Romanian: plictiseală (ro) f
• Russian: скука (ru) (skúka) f
• Serbo-Croatian: dȍsada (sh) f
• Slovene: dolgčas m
• Spanish: aburrimiento (es) m
• Swedish: uttråkning c
• Turkish: can sıkıntısı (tr)
• Urdu: بوریت (ur) (boriyat) f

Anagrams

• bedroom
• broomed