Taedium

Quick meaning: Taedium is a noun meaning Alternative form of tedium.

Meaning

Alternative form of tedium.

Example Sentences

3) Die Langeweile — , to beguile ennui, the taedium or dullness [of a place &c.] with playing;

In the following year it was even rumored in Edinburgh that Waverly was written by Jeffrey “to lighten the taedium of his transatlantic voyage.”

Vanished was the taedium that killed the July Monarchy (“France is bored!”), the listlessness, the shrugging of weary shoulders, the raising of sceptical eyebrows, that were to beset the Third Republic—and the Fourth.

The procession along the sacred road from Athens to Eleusis (see Wordsworth’s Greece, p. 145) used to wile the taedium of the journey with these banterings, as the ‘Canterbury Pilgrimage’ in the time of Chaucer appears to have done.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unquietude, intranquility, tantalisation, fatiguableness, dead-heartedness, transitude.

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