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taedium

taedium is the alternative form of tedium.

Meaning of tedium

Noun

tedium (usually uncountable, plural tediums or tedia)

  1. (usually) Boredom or tediousness; ennui.
    • Yet active life was the genuine soil for his virtues; and he sometimes suffered tedium from the monotonous succession of events in our retirement.1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter VIII, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC

Questions about taedium

What is taedium the alternative form of?
Taedium is the alternative form of tedium.

Words near taedium in the dictionary

  1. TaeBo
  2. Taechew
  3. Taechiew
  4. Taechiu
  5. TAED
  6. taedium
  7. taedium vitae
  8. Taedong
  9. Taedonggang
  10. Taega
  11. taegeuk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: taedium (page history and authors); tedium (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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