tediousness

noun

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Recent Examples of tediousness Many women with natural hair can empathize with the breakage concerns and tediousness that can arise when taking down protective styles. — Caché McClay, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025 It’s powered by your own hand—only without the tediousness of using a needle and thread. — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tediousness
  1. tedium
  2. boredom
  3. dullness
  4. ennui
  5. drabness
  6. weariness
  7. restlessness
Noun
  • The technology is rapidly transforming the way people work, in part by eliminating some of the busy work and tedium of manual workflows, freeing up time for employees to focus on more complex issues.
    — S. Sorrina Beecher, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2026
  • Imagine 007 unmanned by a comparable tedium—slumped in a greasy London flat, counting his nicotine patches and waiting for M to call.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of tedium
Noun
  • Like almost every TikTok star of the 2020s, posting started with pandemic boredom.
    — Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2026
  • But this is potentially generative boredom, the kind that might induce a trance or, at its most transcendent, a divine encounter.
    — Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of boredom
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  • Move the blade across the stone from handle to tip, repeating 10 to 20 times depending on the dullness of the blade.
    — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Yeomans says the approach can work for a range of concerns, including oiliness, dullness, frizz and weak hair that needs strengthening.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of dullness
Noun
  • Stick it out through the trollish one-liners and half-joking ennui, and a galvanizing abundance grindset emerges.
    — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The frames offered by the car’s windshield, windows, and rearview mirror, when catalyzed by the oneiric ennui and schizophrenic paranoia of the drive, create a crucible for a unique brand of voyeurism.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of ennui
Noun
  • There’d been the endless aftermath of the war, the austerity, the rationing, the gray suits, the drabness.
    — Jack Denton, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Life, at least for my family, was defined by scarcity, monotony, and drabness.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of drabness
Noun
  • Then there were the struggling players who had no weariness excuse.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
  • But John Bravender, a weather service warning coordination meteorologist, said 2026 has yielded a different type of weariness in Hawaii.
    — John Raby, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of weariness
Noun
  • Dylan had often sung of independence and created with a concomitant restlessness.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 7 Nov. 2026
  • In studies, withdrawal from kratom has appeared mild on a scale that measures clinical opioid withdrawal, with symptoms like anxiety, fatigue, gastrointestinal issues, and restlessness.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of restlessness

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“Tediousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tediousness. Accessed 15 Nov. 2026.

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