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Definition of Boredom

Boredom

  1. The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.
  2. The realm of bores; bores, collectively.
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Confucius

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
Isaac Asimov

Boredom Translations

boredom in German is Langeweile, Langeweile, Langeweile
boredom in Latin is taedium; tedium
boredom in Spanish is fastidio
boredom in Swedish is leda

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