as in restlessness
the state of being bored
she spent that whole meeting in a state of complete boredom, waiting for lunch
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Recent Examples of boredom
On a quiet pandemic afternoon in 2021, Zhiyuan Wang, then a graduate student at Rice University, was alleviating his boredom by working on a weird mathematical problem.
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Shalma Wegsman, Wired News, 25 May 2025
These spectacular environments and their all-consuming nature are often a form of therapy, a response to loneliness, boredom, trauma, mental illness, or religious mania–sometimes a combination.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
However, attendees showed no sign of boredom and punctuated her approximately 30-minute oration at City Hall with applause.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 5 June 2025
The insight that boredom is the absence of a goal changes everything.
—Stefan Falk, CNBC, 30 May 2025
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Shalma Wegsman, Wired News, 25 May 2025
These spectacular environments and their all-consuming nature are often a form of therapy, a response to loneliness, boredom, trauma, mental illness, or religious mania–sometimes a combination.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
However, attendees showed no sign of boredom and punctuated her approximately 30-minute oration at City Hall with applause.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 5 June 2025
The insight that boredom is the absence of a goal changes everything.
—Stefan Falk, CNBC, 30 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boredom
melancholy
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That betrayal, like so many others, fed the melancholy in Brian's music.—
Philip Martin,
Arkansas Online,
15 June 2025
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With melancholy and playfulness both, Seed threads in her own introspective voice-over and contemporary footage (poring over material, visiting her dad, sparring with a boyfriend).—
Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2025
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“Boredom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boredom. Accessed 27 Jun. 2025.
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