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[ noun ] the feeling of being bored by something tedious
Used in print (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)In the field of entertainment there is no spur to financial daring so effective as audience boredom , and the first decade of the new device was not over before audiences began staying away in large_numbers from the simple-minded , one minute shows . (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)The theatre was hot and they were drugged with boredom . (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)She would rather live in danger than die of loneliness and boredom . (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)This air of disengagement carried_over to his apparent attitude toward his things , and people often mistook it for boredom in him or a surrender to repetitious routine . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)To them he could have been the broken bell in the church_tower which rang before and after Mass , and at noon , and at six each evening - its tone , repetitive , monotonous , never breaking the boredom of the streets . Related terms |
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