Ennui

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  • noun. Listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest; boredom.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A painful or wearisome state of mind due to the want of any object of interest, or to enforced attention to something destitute of interest; the condition of being bored; tedium.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression (Wikipedia).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the feeling of being bored by something tedious
  • Word Usage
    "Prior to this we'd had limited access to the French word "ennui" - a more grandiose, long-term boredom - but once we had our own word for listless dissatisfaction, we embraced it."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    gayety  vivacity  
    cross-reference
    weariness  
    Hypernym
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    Hyponym
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    blahs  fatigue  
    Rhyme
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    Bluey  Dewey  Fukui  Huey  Hughie  
    Same Context
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    Synonym
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    acedia  angst  anguish  anxiety  apathy