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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Arthur Helps

Meaning of "tedium" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TEDIUM

From Latin taedium, from taedēre to weary.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TEDIUM

tedium  [ˈtiːdɪəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TEDIUM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tedium 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 TEDIUM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

tedium

Boredom

Boredom is an emotional state experienced when an individual is left without anything in particular to do, and not interested in their surroundings. The first recorded use of the word boredom is in the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens, written in 1852, in which it appears six times, although the expression to be a bore had been used in print in the sense of "to be tiresome or dull" since 1768. The French term for boredom, ennui, is sometimes used in English as well.

Definition of tedium in the English dictionary

The definition of tedium in the dictionary is the state of being bored or the quality of being boring; monotony.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TEDIUM


anacardium
ˌænəˈkɑːdɪəm
cypripedium
ˌsɪprɪˈpiːdɪəm
diascordium
ˌdaɪəˈskɔːdɪəm
endocardium
ˌɛndəʊˈkɑːdɪəm
epicardium
ˌɛpɪˈkɑːdɪəm
epicedium
ˌɛpɪˈsiːdɪəm
exordium
ɛkˈsɔːdɪəm
intermedium
ˌɪntəˈmiːdɪəm
medium
ˈmiːdɪəm
myocardium
ˌmaɪəʊˈkɑːdɪəm
pericardium
ˌpɛrɪˈkɑːdɪəm
podium
ˈpəʊdɪəm
praeludium
prɪˈluːdɪəm
primordium
praɪˈmɔːdɪəm
rutherfordium
ˌrʌðəˈfɔːdɪəm
sodium
ˈsəʊdɪəm
soredium
sɔːˈriːdɪəm
stadium
ˈsteɪdɪəm
tripudium
traɪˈpjuːdɪəm
uredium
jʊˈriːdɪəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TEDIUM

ted
TED spread
tedded
tedder
teddies
tedding
teddy
teddy bear
teddy boy
teddy girl
tediosity
tedious
tediously
tediousness
tee
tee off
tee shirt
tee-hee
tee-joint
tee-piece

WORDS THAT END LIKE TEDIUM

caladium
circulating medium
clostridium
compendium
contrast medium
cryptosporidium
culture medium
cymbidium
desmodium
disodium
dispersive medium
happy medium
indium
interstellar medium
iridium
mazaedium
plasmodium
radium
rhodium
vanadium

Synonyms and antonyms of tedium in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TEDIUM»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «tedium» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of tedium

Translation of «tedium» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TEDIUM

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

Translator English - Chinese

乏味
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tedio
570 millions of speakers

English

tedium
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विरक्ति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الملل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

скука
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tédio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্লান্তিদায়কতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ennui
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berseri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Stumpfsinn
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

退屈
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

지루한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tedium
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhàm chán
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மன சோர்வு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टेडियम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bezginlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tedio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nuda
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нудьга
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

plictiseală
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verveling
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tedium
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tedium
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tedium

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TEDIUM»

The term «tedium» is regularly used and occupies the 81.473 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TEDIUM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «tedium» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «tedium» 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 tedium

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6 QUOTES WITH «TEDIUM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tedium.
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George Combe
The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.
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Philip Guedalla
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
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Arthur Helps
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
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Lance Loud
Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.
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Rob Sheffield
'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.
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Robert South
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TEDIUM»

Discover the use of tedium in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tedium and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Burn Out: From Tedium to Personal Growth
Defines the causes and symptoms of job burnout and tedium as well as offering strategies for coping with job pressures and avoiding the physical, emotional, and psychological exhaustion resulting in burnout
Ayala Malach Pines, Elliot Aronson, Ditsa Kafry, 1981
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Triumph, Tragedy and Tedium: Stories of a Salt Lake City ...
Barry's stories are captured in teamwork with his personal journalist and wife, Laura Howat. "Makarewicz & Howat masterfully recount the stories of a paramedic/firefighter in Triumph, Tragedy and Tedium.
Barry Makarewicz, Laura Howat, 2010
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TEDIUM and the software process
For nearly a quarter of a century Bruce Blum has been implementing information systems. In this book he describes and evaluates a comprehensive environment called TEDIUM, for the development and maintenance of information systems.
Bruce I. Blum, 1990
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364 Days of Tedium: or What Santa Gets up to on his Days Off
Ever wondered what Santa gets up to the rest of the year? You’ll wish you hadn’t!
Dave Cornmell, 2010
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Between Tedium and Terror: A Soldier's World War II Diary, ...
A Soldier's World War II Diary, 1943-45 Sy M. Kahn. of a young man who did not know if he had much time to find out who he was before he disappeared. Ordinarily youths of eighteen to twenty-one spend those years finding their way toward ...
Sy M. Kahn, 2000
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The Metaphysics of Death
The. Makropulos. Case: Reflections. on. the. Tedium. of. Immortality. Bernard. Williams. This essay started life as a lecture in a series "on the immortality of the soul or kindred spiritual subject."1 My kindred spiritual subject is, one might say, the ...
John Martin Fischer, 1993
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Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, ...
To fifty thousand readers, Catherine Newman is the beloved author of “Bringing Up Ben & Birdy,” a weekly column on babycenter.com.
Catherine Newman, 2005
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Problems of the Self: Philosophical Papers 1956-1972
The. Makropulos. case: reflections. on. the. tedium. of. immortality. This essay started life as a lecture in a series 'on the immortality of the soul or kindred spiritual subject'.1 My kindred spiritual subject is, one might say, the mortality of the soul.
Bernard Williams, 1976
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Doodle While You Work: Erase the Tedium
A survival sketchbook for long meetings, endless conference calls, and the general tedium of office life. This clever collection of half-finished doodles will help any bored office worker pass the time.
Staffan Gnosspelius, 2009
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Life, Death, & Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the ...
Chapter 21 The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality Bernard Williams The early part of Bernard Williams's paper discusses the question of whether death is an evil. Those who think it is, may seem committed, all things ...
David Benatar, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TEDIUM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tedium is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Godzilla' Review: Tedium In Tokyo
However, when you transfer that slow, clumsy, monstrous walk to the gaming world, it just becomes pure tedium. You feel less like Godzilla and more like the ... «Tech Times, Jul 15»
2
The Politics of Tedium
Reporters milled about, waiting for Hillary Clinton to make her grand entrance. Would she come by boat? Perhaps—small police cruisers bobbed up and down ... «The Weekly Standard, Jun 15»
3
Welcome to the Age of Tedium
Ushering in the Age of Tedium is the treasurer, who's promised the federal budget will be as gripping as a Greens leadership shuffle. Remember all that blather ... «The Age, May 15»
4
Election night TV – horror, tedium and constipated monologues
Election night on television is always a weird mixture of horror and tedium, like a Paranormal Activity marathon, or a nine-hour real-time BBC4 documentary set ... «The Guardian, May 15»
5
Violence is Boring: The Tedium of Violence as Progression
“You died,” Bloodborne screamed at me for the 500th time, as I was dealt murder instead of dealing it. I died because I failed to kill. I was denied continuation of ... «Paste Magazine, Apr 15»
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That's Men: Tune into tedium to observe yourself, not your cellphone
I wasn't looking forward to the tedium of the flight either, but I prefer reading and even working to the three brandies and a sleeping pill solution. What I find ... «Irish Times, Apr 15»
7
Netanyahu spreads the tedium, again | Editorial
Benjamin Netanyahu carpet-bombed the Sunday chat shows again, spouting the kind of invective designed to scare the eyebrows off anchormen, calling the ... «NJ.com, Apr 15»
8
Edtech Tool RefME Bags $5M To Take The Tedium Out Of …
The copy-and-paste generation has another tedium-busting digital tool in its arsenal: RefME is a book-barcode scanning app that speeds up the task of creating, ... «TechCrunch, Apr 15»
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Tedium at the Palace: Review of 'The Audience'
New York. No Broadway season is complete without at least one glittering piece of sucker bait for Anglophiles. To go over big at the box office, the show in ... «Wall Street Journal, Mar 15»
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Witty glimpse at tedium of Israeli military service
Witty glimpse at tedium of Israeli military service. Share0 Tweet0 Reddit0 Email0. 0 Comments. Reprints & Permissions ». Shani Klein stars in "Zero ... «Philly.com, Feb 15»

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