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Tedium   /tˈidiəm/   Listen
Tedium

noun
(Written also taedium)
1.
The feeling of being bored by something tedious.  Synonyms: boredom, ennui.
2.
Dullness owing to length or slowness.  Synonyms: tediousness, tiresomeness.






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"Tedium" Quotes from Famous Books



... That history is so intolerably tedious that even the magic of Treitschke's genius has not been able to relieve its dulness, and that before the war no British or French publisher dared venture on a translation of Treitschke's masterpiece. But if the political history of Germany has all the tedium and monotony of parochialism, on the contrary, the personal history of the Hohenzollern is intensely instructive. One would hesitate to call it romantic. Yet there is an element of romance, the romance of business, the interest which attaches to the rise of a family from the humble ...
— German Problems and Personalities • Charles Sarolea

... since then," replied Charles, "and I fear his illness is much more serious than I had any idea of. That being the case, I feel it would be wrong to press any one, even Middleton, to stay and share the tedium ...
— The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers • Mary Cholmondeley

... of Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, and the Adamses, we find no humor in the next generation. The only relief from the tedium of argument and exhaustless logic is found in the savage sarcasm of John Randolph, which was neither wit ...
— My Memories of Eighty Years • Chauncey M. Depew

... made his appearance from among a little group of clerks with whom he had been indulging in a few jokes by way of relief from the tedium of business. "Come this way," he said to Ellen; and sauntering before her, with a rather dissatisfied air, led the way out of the entrance hall into another and much larger apartment. There were plenty of people here too, and just as busy as those they had quitted. Mr. Saunders having ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Susan Warner

... senses; and if this power is lacking, his knowledge in relation to the sick man is vanity. The same holds good of the diagnosis of our own conscience; if we are blind and deaf, innumerable symptoms will pass unobserved, and we shall not know on what to found our judgment. The tedium of futile undertakings will oppress us ...
— Spontaneous Activity in Education • Maria Montessori


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