Synonyms for boredom
ˈbɔr dəm, ˈboʊr-bore·dom

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1. boredom, ennui, tediumnoun

   the feeling of being bored by something tedious

   Synonyms:
   tiresomeness, tedium, tediousness, ennui

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1. • Dissatisfaction

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1. List of paraphrases for "boredom":

   boring, trouble, bored, snag, bore

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1. Lewis Ward:

   Boredom is a finicky creature, never around when you need it, and always popping up when you want it the least.

2. Chetan Dube:

   A large part of your brain is shackled by the boredom and drudgery of everyday existence, you have to drive a car, vacuum the floor or take the garbage out. But imagine if technology could come along and take care of all these mundane chores for you, and allow you to indulge in the forms of creative expression that only the human brain can indulge in. What a beautiful world we would be able to create around us.

3. Erich Fromm:

   The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become Golems, they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.

4. Isaac Asimov:

   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.

5. Lewis Mumford:

   By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.