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taedium

Tedium \Te"di*um\, n. [L. taedium, fr. taedet it disgusts, it wearies one.] Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness. [Written also t[ae]dium.]
--Cowper.

To relieve the tedium, he kept plying them with all manner of bams.
--Prof. Wilson.

The tedium of his office reminded him more strongly of the willing scholar, and his thoughts were rambling.
--Dickens.

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Usage examples of "taedium".

Superintendent Jury was coming through the door of the hotel, saw him sitting here, obviously realized he was in the throes of taedium vitae, and quickly came over with the other detective, Lasko.

Middle ages suffered from--I read a book about it the other day--and its called Taedium Vitae.

There were also several books which instructed the reader that peace of mind of the sort possessed by great saints could be achieved by five minutes of daily contemplation, and two or three complementary books which explained that worry, heart disease, hardening of the arteries, taedium cordis and despair could all be avoided by relaxing the muscles.

But worse than that for our purposes was his case-book showing long-drawn-out histories of general bilious indisposition, melancholy, taedium vitae sometimes reaching mere despair, extreme irascibility: all this with no known agent, though autopsy showed an enlarged quadrate lobe studded with yellow nodules the size of a pea.