Definitions for boredom
ˈbɔr dəm, ˈboʊr-bore·dom

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. boredom, ennui, tediumnoun

   the feeling of being bored by something tedious

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. boredomnoun

   The state of being bored.

2. boredomnoun

   An instance or period of a state of being bored; a variety of bored state.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Boredom

   In conventional usage, boredom is an emotional and occasionally psychological state experienced when an individual is left without anything in particular to do, is not interested in their surroundings, or feels that a day or period is dull or tedious. It is also understood by scholars as a modern phenomenon which has a cultural dimension. "There is no universally accepted definition of boredom. But whatever it is, researchers argue, it is not simply another name for depression or apathy. It seems to be a specific mental state that people find unpleasant—a lack of stimulation that leaves them craving relief, with a host of behavioural, medical and social consequences." According to BBC News, boredom "...can be a dangerous and disruptive state of mind that damages your health"; yet research "...suggest[s] that without boredom we couldn't achieve our creative feats."In Experience Without Qualities: Boredom and Modernity, Elizabeth Goodstein traces the modern discourse on boredom through literary, philosophical, and sociological texts to find that as "a discursively articulated phenomenon...boredom is at once objective and subjective, emotion and intellectualization—not just a response to the modern world, but also a historically constituted strategy for coping with its discontents." In both conceptions, boredom has to do fundamentally with an experience of time and problems of meaning.

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1. boredom

   Boredom is a state of feeling uninterested or unengaged in activities or situations, often marked by restlessness or dissatisfaction. It is an emotional and psychological condition where individuals perceive their environment as dull, tedious, monotonous or lacking in stimulation, often leading to a sense of apathy or lethargy.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Boredomnoun

   the state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui

2. Boredomnoun

   the realm of bores; bores, collectively

WikidataRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Boredom

   Boredom is an emotional state experienced when an individual is left without anything in particular to do, and not interested in their surroundings. The first recorded use of the word boredom is in the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens, written in 1852, in which it appears six times, although the expression to be a bore had been used in the sense of "to be tiresome or dull" since 1768. The French term for boredom, ennui, is sometimes used in English as well.

The Roycroft DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. boredom

   1. The essential nature of monogamy. 2. A period or rest between I Did and I Will. 3. A state of divine revelation wherein for a single moment we are carried by the giant of Eternal Inutility to the abysms and summits of the perpetual Nix. (The word _boredom_ comes from Bore, a tired son of Noah. After the subsidence of the waters, Bore wandered about the earth, yawning and gaping and stretching, for at that time malaria oozed from many stagnant pools. Finally, absolutely exhausted, Bore, being afraid to be down on the damp and slimy soil, rested on the seventh day on his own bean, hence boredom.)

U.S. National Library of MedicineRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Boredom

   A psychological state resulting from any activity that lacks motivation, or from enforced continuance in an uninteresting situation.

Matched Categories

1. • Dissatisfaction

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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Anagrams for boredom »

1. bedroom

2. broomed

3. boerdom

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How to say boredom in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of boredom in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of boredom in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of boredom in a Sentence

1. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:

   Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

2. Voltaire:

   Work saves us from three great evils boredom, vice and need.

3. Johann von Goethe:

   God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

4. Erin Westgate:

   I think the problem before lockdown was that we just didn't have enough( boredom), the problem now might be too much -- but we can use that boredom to come up with creative solutions.

5. Erich Fromm:

   The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become Golems, they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=boredom
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Boredom
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boredom
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boredom
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=boredom
7. ^ The Roycroft Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36566/36566-h/36566-h.htm#:~:text=boredom
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=boredom