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noun

the quality or state of being wearisome; irksomeness; tediousness.

Origin:
1655–65; < Latin taedium

Synonyms
monotony, sameness, dullness.

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Scientists are arguing that tedium is good for your brain.

They will experience the short school day and housework tedium.

When a paper does get published, the easiest way to debate it is to submit another paper, with all the tedium that entails.

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Scientists are arguing that tedium is good for your brain.

They will experience the short school day and housework tedium.

When a paper does get published, the easiest way to debate it is to submit another paper, with all the tedium that entails.

The stink of exhaust, the mind-numbing tedium of traffic, parking lots blighting central city real estate.

The menu of several microwave specialties relieves you of the tedium of too many options.

They have a lot more tedium to survive before they create new life.

The spot has certainly managed to break through the usual tedium of the tube.

It's mighty important, mind you, but a big part of me sees all of that as pure tedium.

Contemporary opera is trying to escape from its reputation for atonal tedium.

Thankfully, there are a few more prehistoric critters to help break the movie's naked tedium.

Though his invention saves time, it still requires the tedium that is animation's hallmark.

Professional athletes must embrace tedium and torture to become champions.

He's also a seat-of-the-pants politician with little tolerance for tedium.

The workflow is steady, the risk of injury low, and the main complaint tedium.

So people have devised all sorts of schemes to fight the tedium of a workout.

Humans would be increasingly freed from the tedium of day-to-day tasks.

The principal reason for its tedium is that it all looks alike.

It can be described as the unbearable tedium of being.

In fact, the tedium of this antidrinking hoodlum's tale inspires the wrong kind of longing entirely.

If only there were a way to look after one's health without suffering the tedium of green vegetables and exercise bicycles.

Sports is an escape nearly everywhere from the tedium of life.

She fantasizes about becoming a hostage in a daring bank robbery, if only to alleviate the tedium of her job.

He begins with some jokes about the tedium of it all.

And that saves him from some of the tedium of writing out the same advice over and over again.

But way more depressing: the tedium of an easy life and the obscurity of a position in a big media company.

And some, psychologists and arson investigators say, do it simply to relieve the tedium of a pursuit that.

Luckily, portable hard drives have begun to take the mind-numbing tedium out of.

Bottom line: visiting publishers with book ideas is, to me, a real treat compared with other conference tedium.

Back when dotcoms boomed, some of the hottest new e-tailers were firms that promised to relieve people of the tedium of.

Giving him that pleasure was well worth the mild tedium of another graduation ceremony.

Ex-militiamen may find it equally hard to adapt to the poverty and tedium of civilian life.

So much for the pointillistic tedium of characterization.

Users may be in store for some tedium as they trek from site to site in search of friends' contact info.

The movie succeeds in capturing the tedium of every day life, at work and at home.

European state workers are often badly paid, having consciously accepted low salaries and tedium in exchange for job security.

There's nothing inherently wrong with this system, but the tedium of repeating the same exercises with each of your dragons.

But the tedium of waiting for ice to liquefy has a payoff: there was a sizable amount this year riding on when it finally would.

In fact, you should take full advantage of them, if only to alleviate the tedium of those long stretches in airports and planes.

If a trace of tedium develops as the picture rolls along, that is true to the nature of the bachelor party.

But it is not enough to make the trip worth the tedium.

In between, he has covered moments of high drama, low comedy and quiet tedium.

Something that would approximate the millions of hours of tedium that hackers have inflicted on society.

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World English Dictionary

tedium (ˈtiːdɪəm)

—n
	the state of being bored or the quality of being boring; monotony

[C17: from Latin taedium, from taedēre to weary]

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tedium

1662, from L. tædium "weariness, disgust," related to tædet "it is wearisome," and to tædere "to weary." Possible cognates are O.C.S. tezo, Lith. tingiu "to be dull, be listless."

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