ennui

en·nui

E0152200 (ŏn-wē′, ŏn′wē)n. Listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest; boredom: "The servants relieved their ennui with gambling and gossip about their masters" (John Barth).

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[French, from Old French enui, from ennuyer, to annoy, bore; see annoy.]Word History: Both annoy and ennui originate from the same Latin phrase. When the Romans wanted to say that they hated something, they used an idiom whose wording may seem a little unexpected for speakers of English: mihi in odiō est, which literally means "to me in a condition of dislike or hatred it is." Translated more idiomatically, the expression just means "I hate or dislike." The words in odiō ("in hatred") in this idiom gave rise to the Vulgar Latin verb *inodiāre, "to be hateful or a source of trouble to, annoy," the source of the Old French verb ennuyer or anoier, "to trouble, annoy, bore." This verb was borrowed into Middle English by around 1275 as anoien, our annoy. The Old French verb anoier also gave rise to a noun, variously spelled enui and annui, meaning "chagrin, sadness." The Modern French form of this noun, ennui, came to mean "boredom, lassitude," and it was with this sense that the word was borrowed into English in the 1700s.

ennui

(ˈɒnwiː; French ɑ̃nɥi) na feeling of listlessness and general dissatisfaction resulting from lack of activity or excitement[C18: from French: apathy, from Old French enui annoyance, vexation; see annoy]

en•nui

(ɑnˈwi)

n. a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom. [1660–70; < French: boredom; Old French enui displeasure; see annoy]

ennui

A feeling of general dissatisfaction and listlessness caused by boredom or lack of activity.

Thesaurus

Noun

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ennui - the feeling of being bored by something tediousboredom, tediumdissatisfaction - the feeling of being displeased and discontent; "he was never slow to express his dissatisfaction with the service he received"blahs - a general feeling of boredom and dissatisfactionfatigue - (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something; "he was suffering from museum fatigue"; "after watching TV with her husband she had a bad case of football fatigue"; "the American public is experiencing scandal fatigue"; "political fatigue"

ennui

noun (Literary) boredom, dissatisfaction, tiredness, the doldrums, lethargy, tedium, lassitude, listlessness He suffered from ennui whenever he was alone.

ennui

nounThe condition of being bored:boredom.

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