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usually uncountable, plural boredoms
(uncountable) The state of being bored. quotations examples
[…] only last Sunday, my Lady, in the desolation of Boredom and the clutch of Giant Despair, almost hated her own maid for being in spirits.
1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter XII, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853
(countable) An instance or period of being bored; A bored state. quotations examples
If we are seeking a more original conception of boredom then we must also correspondingly endeavour to envisage a more original form of boredom, thus presumably a boredom in which we become more bored than in the situation we have characterized.
1995, Martin Heidegger, William McNeill, Nicholas Walker, transl., The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude, page 107
Yet that earlier characterization was of a kind of boredom that can be portrayed as resembling acedia; that is, a boredom that I can be held responsible for, either in its genesis or its persistence.
1999, Michael L. Raposa, Boredom and the Religious Imagination, page 58