Synonyms for boredom
ˈbɔr dəm, ˈboʊr-bore·dom

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1. boredom, ennui, tediumnoun

   the feeling of being bored by something tedious

   Synonyms:
   tiresomeness, tedium, tediousness, ennui

Matched Categories

1. • Dissatisfaction

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1. List of paraphrases for "boredom":

   boring, trouble, bored, snag, bore

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1. David Wells:

   God's people have no assurances that the dark experiences of life will be held at bay, much less that God will provide some sort of running commentary on the meaning of each day's allotment of confusion, boredom, pain, or achievement.

2. Gustave Flaubert:

   A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.

3. Thomas Szasz:

   Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is.

4. Voltaire:

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

5. Abraham Myerson:

   Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.