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Meaning of "boringness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BORINGNESS

boringness  [ˈbɔːrɪŋnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BORINGNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Boringness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BORINGNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of boringness in the English dictionary

The definition of boringness in the dictionary is the quality of being boring.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BORINGNESS


aspiringness
əˈspaɪərɪŋnəs
beingness
ˈbiːɪŋnəs
belongingness
bɪˈlɒŋɪŋnəs
domineeringness
ˌdɒmɪˈnɪərɪŋnəs
endearingness
ɪnˈdɪərɪŋnəs
enduringness
ɪnˈdjʊərɪŋnəs
fittingness
ˈfɪtɪŋnəs
glaringness
ˈɡlɛərɪŋnəs
interestingness
ˈɪntrəstɪŋnəs
knowingness
ˈnəʊɪŋnəs
lumberingness
ˈlʌmbərɪŋnəs
overbearingness
ˌəʊvəˈbeərɪŋnəs
overweeningness
ˌəʊvəˈwiːnɪŋnəs
retiringness
rɪˈtaɪərɪŋnəs
sparingness
ˈspɛərɪŋnəs
teemingness
ˈtiːmɪŋnəs
trustingness
ˈtrʌstɪŋnəs
unaspiringness
ˌʌnəˈspaɪərɪŋnəs
unsparingness
ʌnˈspɛərɪŋnəs
waveringness
ˈweɪvərɪŋnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BORINGNESS

borgo
boric
boric acid
boride
boring
boring machine
boring mill
boringly
Boris bike
Boris I
bork
Borlaug
borlotti bean
borm
Bormann
born
born on the wrong side of the blanket
born out of wedlock

WORDS THAT END LIKE BORINGNESS

bigness
business
cunningness
lastingness
lovingness
nothingness
pressingness
savingness
shiningness
smugness
snugness
strikingness
strongness
temptingness
trigness
unchangingness
unfeelingness
unwillingness
unyieldingness
willingness
wrongness

Synonyms and antonyms of boringness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «boringness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BORINGNESS

Find out the translation of boringness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of boringness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «boringness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

boringness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

boringness
570 millions of speakers

English

boringness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

boringness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

boringness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

boringness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

boringness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

boringness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

boringness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Boringness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Langweiligkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

boringness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

boringness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Boringness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

boringness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

boringness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कंटाळवाणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

boringness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

noia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

boringness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

boringness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

plictiselii
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

boringness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

boringness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

boringness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

boring
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of boringness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BORINGNESS»

The term «boringness» is normally little used and occupies the 122.343 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BORINGNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «boringness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «boringness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about boringness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BORINGNESS»

Discover the use of boringness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to boringness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Introvert Approach: Approach Women and Have Powerful ...
In Chapter 4 we saw that comfort is not the same as boringness. Boring conversations are not comfortable, and building comfort and connection with a girl is never boring. If you find yourself getting into conversations that are boring for you, ...
Justin I.P., 2013
2
The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, ...
Yet if we are thus unclear about the general characteristic of the boringness of a thing taken as a property, may we then hope to explain this particular property in the right way? Do we then not simply lack any purchase on the problem? Indeed.
Martin Heidegger, 2001
3
How to Romance Your Woman: Keeping the Spice in Your ...
“NO. BORINGNESS. IN. YOUR. RELATIONSHIP. AND. MARRIAGE”. In the early part of a relationship is when both of you getting to know each other, going out on dates, and doing stuff together. But, as the years flow by in your relationship or ...
Rodney Harrison, Beatrice Ivory, 2012
4
Henry Sidgwick
Such boringness — positive as opposed to negative — is the result of too much self-discipline rather than too little, and if Sidgwick was boring, it was more in the positive than in the negative style. Collini analyses Sidgwick's professionalism, ...
Ross Harrison, 2001
5
Making Fun: How Urban Black Girls Craft Identity
The facilitator asked many questions and proposed many explanations for this particular museum's “boringness” in an attempt to comprehend and better predict what the girls would find boring. Throughout my experience with the girls, I too ...
Angela Lea Thieman Dino, 2007
6
The Role of Boredom and Anxiety in Early Heidegger
But at the same time, the boringness of the book is a result of our relationship to it . What is essential about the book is the way we are affected by it. Once again, a boring thing seems to have objective and subjective characteristics.
Eugene H. Elias (Jr), 1997
7
Loving The L Word: The Complete Series in Focus
m. “Slip. under. my. C|OCik. of. boringness. No. one. will. even. know. we're. gone ." Kim F icera Like a longtime lover who one day went out for milk and never came back, the final episode of The L Word left me hanging. In a word, I felt cheated.
Dana Heller, 2013
8
Emotive Language in Argumentation
This argument can be described as a double attack on the traditional system of values. A new hierarchy dominated by the couple boringness–originality replaces the traditional hierarchy of values organized according to the principle “ that is ...
Douglas Walton, Fabrizio Macagno, 2014
9
Oxford Studies in Metaethics
There is no need to say that those factors cause a painful sensation of boringness, which then in turn explains why you do not want to engage in the activity; the appeal to the sensation is completely otiose. The familiarity, easiness  ...
Russ Shafer-Landau, 2013
10
Handbook of Research on New Literacies
It is the boringness and routineness that makes the Internet important because this means that it is being pervasively incorporated into people's lives. It is time now for more differentiated analyses of the Internet that take into account how it has ...
Julie Coiro, Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BORINGNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term boringness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
There is a duty not to be boring
And it was undoubtedly true. But it made me wonder if there was any moral significance to my personal boringness. Should I repent of it, or is it ... «Practical Ethics, Jun 15»
2
Forget last season, there's plenty to be excited about
What we sacrificed in bats**t-mental ability we would hopefully gain in defensive solidarity and a sense of boringness than champions are ... «The Bib Theorists, Jun 15»
3
MarketsMarkets hit the snooze button on Greece
... and then lower, stocks are also back to 'meh'. You can see the unbearable boringness of the euro/dollar exchange rate in the chart below. «Financial Times, Jun 15»
4
Jeet This Week: Canada is boring — and that's no accident
"Canada has constructed a mask of boringness," says Jeet, adding the country's lacklustre, conflict averse image can be seen as a convenient ... «CBC.ca, Jun 15»
5
Power to the People
The entire realm is protected, he added, by “a huge force field of boringness.” But what has been a virtue, by and large, is now almost certainly ... «The New Yorker, Jun 15»
6
Like me, some millennials have perfectly good reasons for leaving …
... these young workers finding their work near narcolepsy-inducing in boringness; as if millennials exist solely in a deep and caffeine-sustained ... «NJBIZ, Jun 15»
7
Apple's New OS X 'El Capitan' Preview Is a Subtle, Fast Upgrade
After years of boringness, Apple's Notes program has suddenly sprouted an array of formatting features that practically turn it into OneNote or ... «Yahoo Tech, Jun 15»
8
Preity Zinta cries for help
After that she removed her boringness via doing #pzchat with fans on Twitter and made day of many via cute replies just like her to many ... «PINKVILLA, Jun 15»
9
Beer Nerds Take Over The Town During SAVOR Week
... over the city host both local and out-of-market breweries and try to do events that go a little beyond the typical "steal a pint" type boringness. «DCist.com, May 15»
10
Josh Duggar allegations: we're so used to giving famous men the …
... holds as its sacraments: boringness, purity, female subservience, shamelessly rubbing heterosex in strangers' faces, the letter “J”, hairdos of ... «The Guardian, May 15»

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