boredoms

Noun

boredom (usually uncountable, plural boredoms)

1. (usually) The state of being bored.
   • The House had just broke up, and the political members had just entered, and in clusters, some standing, and some yawning, some stretching their arms, and some stretching their legs, presented symptoms of an escape from boredom.1831, [Benjamin Disraeli], chapter V, in The Young Duke. […], volume II (book III), London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 57

   Synonyms:

   ennui, tedium, dullsville

2. (countable, usually) An instance or period of being bored; a bored state.
   • If we are seeking a more original conception of boredom then we must also correspondingly endeavour to envisage a more original form of boredom, thus presumably a boredom in which we become more bored than in the situation we have characterized.1995, Martin Heidegger, William McNeill, Nicholas Walker, transl., The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude, page 107
3. (obsolete, rare, usually) The state of being a bore.
   • Neither will I follow another precedental mode of boredom, and indulge in a laudatory apostrophe to the destinies which presided over my fashioning.1829 June 6, “Autobiography of an Opera Ticket”, in Court Journal, page 84, column 1; republished in The Albion […], volume 8, number 9, New York, N.Y., 8 August 1829, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 69, column 2

   Synonyms:

   boreism