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Meanings of tedium in English

Portuguese
apatia
Catalan
tedi
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The feeling of being bored by something tedious.

        apatia
        Portuguese
        tédio
        Catalan
        tedi
        Spanish
        desgana

        Dullness owing to length or slowness.

              tédio
              Usage of tedium in English
              1
              It served to relieve some of the tedium of that second year:
              The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
              2
              But I was spared soon the tedium and discomforts of the journey.
              Barry Lyndon
              3
              It was his bright, dry, daily ordeal, his personal measure of tedium.
              Revolutionary Road
              4
              Her life had much in it of laborious tedium-tediumnever-ending and monotonous.
              The Old Wives' Tale
              5
              I have not your resources for beguiling the tedium of the way.
              Try and Trust; Or, Abner Holden's Bound Boy
              6
              In the light and in tedium I see but don't know myself.
              The book of disquiet
              7
              The tedium of an agricultural community was starting to wear on her.
              Ahsoka
              8
              Not for them the tedium of calculating points or wondering about offers.
              The Irish Times
              9
              He was relieved from this tedium by another summons to the office.
              Sisters
              10
              We thanked the officer for relieving our tedium with his marvelous story.
              Autobiography of a Yogi
              11
              In all, the experience was the strangest mixture of excitement and tedium.
              Wired
              12
              And tedium is more oppressive when there's not the excuse of idleness.
              The book of disquiet
              13
              The mail train was due sometime that evening to relieve their tedium.
              Scoop
              14
              Margaret's first sensation was resentment at the renewed tedium of it all.
              Private life
              15
              The tedium of driving car pools had never seemed intolerable to her.
              Coming out
              16
              It sighed, a long whistling sigh of infinite tedium, and lay still.
              The Quiet American
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