boredom

noun3

1. •
   The state of being bored.

   • [O]nly 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
2. •
   An instance or period of being bored; a bored state.

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3. •
   (no longer used, rare) The state of being a bore.

   • Neither will I follow another precedental mode of boredom, and indulge in a laudatory apostrophe to the destinies which presided over my fashioning. — 1829