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  3  definitions  found 
 
  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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