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Webster 1913 Edition
Tedium
Te′di-um
,Noun.
[L.
taedium
, fr. taedet
it disgusts, it wearies one.] Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness.
[Written also
taedium
.] Cowper.
To relieve the
tedium
, he kept plying them with all manner of bams. Prof. Wilson.
The
tedium
of his office reminded him more strongly of the willing scholar, and his thoughts were rambling. Dickens.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tedium
TE'DIUM
,Noun.
Definition 2024
tedium
tedium
English
Francesco Brunery's painting A Tedious Conference (19th–20th century), depicting clerics suffering from tedium during a meeting
Alternative forms
- tædium (dated)
Noun
tedium (usually uncountable, plural tediums)
- Boredom or tediousness; ennui.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 8
- 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, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 8
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Translations
boredom or tediousness; ennui