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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tedium \Te"di*um\, n. [L. taedium, fr taedet it disgusts, it
wearies one.]
Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness. [Written also
{t[ae]dium}.] --Cowper.
To relieve the tedium, he kept plying them with all
manner of bams. --Prof.
Wilson.
The tedium of his office reminded him more strongly of
the willing scholar, and his thoughts were rambling.
--Dickens.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
tedium
n 1: the feeling of being bored by something tedious [syn: {boredom},
{ennui}]
2: dullness owing to length or slowness [syn: {tediousness}, {tiresomeness}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many
fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an
authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious
source -- the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum
Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something
that saddens.
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