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tedium (TEE dee uhm) (s) (noun), (usually no plural)
1. A condition of being tiresome or wearisome; as well as, being monotonous, dreary, irksome, and fatiguing: Ryan took a day off from work to relieve the tedium there and so he went to a movie which resulted in three hours of even more tedium.

Tedium suggests a repression of energy because of a lack of a proper or an adequate outlet and a dullness of spirits resulting in stupefying inactivity or monotony and a lack of interest that can cause psychological melancholy.

2. The quality of being dull, boring, and dreary: Shirley couldn't face the tedium of five more years at the same job despite the fact that computers could relieve some of the tedium of taking notes.
3. Etymology: from Latin taedium a form of taedere, "to vex, to make weary".

A bore is a fellow talker who can change the subject to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

—Laurence J. Peter, Peter's Quotations
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Tedium Vitae. (Latin phrase)
Translation: "Weariness of life."
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