Crossword clues for boredom
boredom
- Yawning cause
- Yawn causer
- Undesired audience reaction
- Sleep inducer, perhaps
- Reason to draw a doodle, maybe
- Reason to daydream, maybe
- Opposite of engagement
- Nothing-to-do feeling
- Monotony's result
- It may be inspired by a lack of inspiration
- Feeling at a tedious lecture
- Condition that might bring you to tears?
- Anagram of "bedroom"
- Along with pain, one of "the two enemies of human happiness," per Schopenhauer
- "The root of all evil," per Kierkegaard
- "Against __ even gods struggle in vain": Nietzsche
- Yawn inducer
- Reason to doodle
- The blahs
- Cause of yawning, perhaps
- Reason to stare off into space
- A rut often leads to it
- Cause of yawns
- The feeling of being bored by something tedious
- Routine result
- Ennui
- Way to screw up irksome state
- Report framing left-winger’s apathy
- Did nurse prepare Mark for weariness?
- Lack of interest
- Cause of many yawns
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boredom \Bore"dom\, n.
The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.
--Dickens.The realm of bores; bores, collectively.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"state of being bored," 1852, from bore (v.1) + -dom. It also has been employed in a sense "bores as a class" (1883) and "practice of being a bore" (1864, a sense properly belonging to boreism, 1833).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state of being bored. 2 (context countable English) An instance or period of a state of being bored; a variety of bored state.
WordNet
Wikipedia
In conventional usage, boredom is an emotional or psychological state experienced when an individual is left without anything in particular to do, is not interested in his or her 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. 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.
Usage examples of "boredom".
They sought to wear away at the armies of Xacatecas and Acoma, here through attrition, and there through the nerve-sawing, actionless boredom.
Christian turning gradually into the ill-tempered agnostic, entangled in the end of a feud of which he never understood the beginning, blighted with a sort of hereditary boredom with he knows not what, and already weary of hearing what he has never heard.
As the men fought off boredom, Bucher began thinking the entire mission was going to be a bust.
I can think of to keep monotony and boredom, the breeding ground of cafard, from setting in.
Viv had never stopped sucking, even years after she ran off with Ooze, television in one hand, fifth of scotch in the other, leaving Frank with a gnawing hunger that would consume him like a slow fire and would not be satisfied by pizza, and he would retire out of boredom and curiosity to a Nursing Camp with a TV set, a cybersex unit and a Hollywood radiator, until one day when he would escape and journey through furrowed tunnels to the foul nightmare worlds of his imagination realized and manifested, to the uncharted lands beneath the shopping malls, and he would work his way back to thls place, the here and now, wherever that might be, and he would die, in a room filled with hyperactive children and thinking appliances with the cold taste of rubberish pizza still on his lips.
Gaal Dornick, who sat in the docket caught between boredom and fear for his life a numbing situation, as Hari well knew.
I stood facing the Stockturm, steep brick wall pinned against the sky, and it was only by chance, in response to a faint stirring of boredom, that I wedged my drumsticks in between the masonry and the iron mounting of the door.
This led to a whispered conversation between Ken Prinsep and Dunster, which caused the judge to close his eyes and lean back as though suffering from terminal boredom.
Leave behind the expat, extramarital, almost-incestuous affairs bred from heat and boredom and drink.
She wondered whether Fennec would come by again, and when he did not, she went to bed in an irritated burst of boredom.
Friday penance sessions in the gymnasium continued to delight him and prevent his boredom, for he attended them from his secret hiding place in the Snuggery and, at times, just as we have already described, crept out when the culprits were blindfold and pinioned, to feel their bosoms and bottoms and sometimes even, when the mood seized him, to fustigate their plump white backsides and revel in their squirmings and sobbing pleas for pardon.
In the situation we were in, which was one of total, complete and utter heat and boredom and wondering what manner of crawling scabby insect you were going to dine on next, the fact of four hundred headless Filipinos was a topic for pleasant clubhouse gossip, something to discuss briefly in mild awe and almost admiration for the ginks for at least having a sense of spectacle and to be grateful for in a way because it took our minds off our own problems.
Before leaving me he asked me to come and sup with him on the following evening, promising that boredom should not be of the party.
I must warn you that I am inured to that particular boredom: I go there every year!
CHAPTER XXIV THE DUEL Cleggett took Wilton Barnstable by the sleeve and drew him towards Loge, who, still seated on the deck with his long legs stretched out in front of him, was now yawning with a cynical affectation of boredom.