What does boredom mean?
Definitions for boredom
ˈbɔr dəm, ˈboʊr-bore·dom
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Princeton's WordNet
boredom, ennui, tediumnoun
the feeling of being bored by something tedious
Wiktionary
boredomnoun
The state of being bored.
boredomnoun
An instance or period of a state of being bored; a variety of bored state.
Wikipedia
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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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 Dictionary
Boredomnoun
the state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui
Boredomnoun
the realm of bores; bores, collectively
Wikidata
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 Dictionary
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 Medicine
Boredom
A psychological state resulting from any activity that lacks motivation, or from enforced continuance in an uninteresting situation.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of boredom in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of boredom in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of boredom in a Sentence
This is one of the most urgent problems for civilized man. He has created civilization to give him security. Security for what? For boredom? His chief problem seems to be that most human beings need a certain amount of challenge, of external stimulus, to stop them from sinking into the blank stare and blank consciousness of the idiot.
There is no boredom or denial of faith in solitude, only privacy of priorities.
When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy -- but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.
No matter how quick you go, two hours, 15 is enough. Two hours and 20 and my boredom threshold kicks in.
It's a mixture of boredom and anxiety, we're cut off from our lives, our friends, our extended families. We're stuck at home.
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- مللّ, مللArabic
- скукаBulgarian
- nudaCzech
- kedsomhedDanish
- LangeweileGerman
- ανία, βαρεμάρα, πλήξηGreek
- enuoEsperanto
- aburrimientoSpanish
- کسالتPersian
- tylsyys, ikävystyminenFinnish
- ennuiFrench
- שִׁעְמוּםHebrew
- बोरियतHindi
- unalomHungarian
- ձանձրույթArmenian
- kebosananIndonesian
- noia, tedioItalian
- שעמוםHebrew
- 退屈Japanese
- მოწყენილობაGeorgian
- 갑갑증, 지루함Korean
- بێزاریKurdish
- garlaiks, garlaicībaLatvian
- bosanMalay
- vervelingDutch
- kjedsomhetNorwegian
- nudaPolish
- aborrecimento, tédioPortuguese
- plictisealăRomanian
- скукаRussian
- dȍsadaSerbo-Croatian
- dolgčasSlovene
- uttråkningSwedish
- ความเบื่อหน่าย, ความเบื่อThai
- can sıkıntısıTurkish
- بوریتUrdu
- buồn tẻ, buồn chán, nỗiVietnamese
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