tedium

• taedium (Commonwealth)
• tædium (archaic)

Latin taedium, from taedēre (“to weary”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtiː.di.əm/

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• Rhymes: -iːdiəm

tedium (usually uncountable, plural tediums or tedia)

1. Boredom or tediousness; ennui.
   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter VIII, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     Yet active life was the genuine soil for his virtues; and he sometimes suffered tedium from the monotonous succession of events in our retirement.

   • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 192:

     Nothing actual ever suits pure expectation and such purity of expectation is a great source of tedium.

• boredom, drudgery, ennui, tediousness

• taedium vitae
• tedious