Ennui \En`nui"\, n. [F., fr. L. in odio in hatred. See Annoy.]
A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of
spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium.
--T. Gray.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ennui
n : the feeling of being bored by something tedious [syn: boredom,
tedium]
WordNet (r) 2.0
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "ennui":
acedia, angst, anguish, anxiety, apathy, blues, boredness, boredom,
cheerlessness, dejection, depression, discomfort, discomposure,
discontent, dislike, dispiritedness, displeasure, disquiet,
dissatisfaction, doldrums, dread, drowsiness, dullness, dumps,
emptiness, enervation, existential woe, fatigue, fed-upness,
flatness, grimness, heaviness, hebetude, inanimation, indifference,
inquietude, jadedness, joylessness, lack of pleasure,
lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languor,
languorousness, lassitude, lenitude, lentor, lethargy,
life-weariness, lifelessness, listlessness, malaise, melancholy,
nausea, nongratification, nonsatisfaction, oscitancy, painfulness,
pall, passivity, phlegm, sadness, satedness, satiation, satiety,
savorlessness, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness,
sluggishness, somnolence, spiritlessness, spleen, staleness,
stupefaction, stupor, supineness, surfeit, taedium vitae,
tastelessness, tediousness, tedium, tire, tiredness, torpidity,
torpidness, torpitude, torpor, uncomfortableness, unease,
uneasiness, unhappiness, unpleasure, unsatisfaction,
vexation of spirit, wearifulness, weariness, weary,
world-weariness, yawn
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
boredom, tedium
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