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usually uncountable, plural tediums or tedia
Boredom or tediousness; ennui. quotations examples
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], chapter VIII, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]
Nothing actual ever suits pure expectation and such purity of expectation is a great source of tedium.
1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, page 192