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the state of being bored
- she spent that whole meeting in a state of complete boredom, waiting for lunch
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“Boredom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boredom. Accessed 25 Jun. 2022.
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The first known use of boredom was in 1853
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