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: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: скука (bg) (skúka) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 無聊 (zh), 无聊 (zh) (wúliáo), 乏味 (zh) (fáwèi), 無趣 (zh), 无趣 (zh) (wúqù) Croatian: dȍsada (hr) f. Czech: nuda (cs) f. Danish: kedsomhed (da) c. Dutch: verveling (nl) f. Finnish: tylsyys, ikävystyminen French: ennui (fr) m. Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Langeweile (de) f. Greek: πλήξη (el) 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: بێزاری 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. Slovene: dolgčas m. Spanish: aburrimiento (es) m. Swedish: uttråkning c. Turkish: can sıkıntısı (tr) Urdu: بوریت (ur) (boriyat) f.

Anagrams

• bedroom
• broomed