tedium
(ˈtiːdɪəm)
Also 7–9 tædium.
[a. L. tædium weariness, disgust, f. tæd-ēre to weary.]
The state or quality of being tedious; wearisomeness, tediousness, ennui.
| 1662 Petty Taxes ii. §37 Whereby the charge and tedium of travelling..may be greatly lessened. 1663 J. Spencer Prodigies (1665) 16 Stories of Prodigies may..deceive the tædium of a winter night. 1779 J. Moore View Soc. Fr. (1789) I. xviii. 141 A more infallible specific against tedium and fatigue. 1814 Scott Wav. xxv, When he remembered the tædium of his quarters. 1874 Green Short Hist. v. §1. 216 In some of the stories..there is the tedium of the old romance. |
| Comb. 1827 Carlyle Germ. Lit. Misc. Ess. 1872 I. 28 One or two sleek clerical tutors, with here and there a tedium-stricken 'squire. |