Tedium

Definitions: Tedium

Tedium

Noun

1. The feeling of being bored by something tedious.

2. Dullness owing to length or slowness.

Date "tedium" was first used: 1662. (references)

Etymology: Tedium \Te"di*um\, noun. [Latin expression taedium, from taedet it disgusts, it wearies one.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Satire	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. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
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Synonyms: Tedium

Synonyms: boredom (n), ennui (n), tediousness (n), tiresomeness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Weariness	Wearisomeness, tediousness; Adjective: dull work, tedium, monotony, twice-told tale.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Tedium

English words defined with "tedium": Taedium, To be in the doldrums. (references)

Specialty definitions using "tedium": bit bashing. (references)

Etymologies containing "tedium": tedious. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Affordable Tedium (reference) Between Tedium and Terror: A Soldier's World War II Diary, 1943-45 (reference) Burnout: From Tedium to Personal Growth (reference) Tedium and the Software Process (Information Systems Series) (reference) (more book examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam.
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"Tedium" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tedium" is used about 125 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	125	28,650

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "tedium": till-death-us-do-tedium.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "tedium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mërzi (aridity, blackness, boredom, depression, drag, dumps, ennui, flatness, gloom, mood, spleen, weariness). (various references)

Arabic		‏فترة مملة, ‏ملل (bore, boredom, ennui, fatigue, monotony, ponderosity, tiredness, weariness), ‏ضجر (be fed up, bore, bored, boredom, dullness, fed up, give up, importune, irk, plumb, tire, tiredness, weariness, weary). (various references)

Bulgarian		скука (boredom, humdrum, insipidness, monotony, weariness), еднообразие (dead level, ding-dong, flatness, humdrum, jogtrot, monotony, sameness, uniformity), досада (annoyance, chagrin, displeasure, ennui, pip, plague, vexation, weariness). (various references)

Czech		otrava (bitch, bore, bother, business, chore, drag, nark, pain, pest, poison, spoilsport), nuda (bore, boredom, tameness), jednotvárnost (baldness, monotony, uniformity). (various references)

Farsi		یکنواختی (Humdrum, Monotony, Uniformity), ملالت (Boredom, Ennui, Gloom, Humdrum), طاقت فرساءی (Intolerance), خستگی (Boredom, Ennui, Exhaustion, Tired), دلتنگی (Anguish, Ennui, Melancholia), بیزاری (Abhorrence, Aversion, Disgust, Ennui, Grudge, Hatred, Loathloth, Reluctance). (various references)

Finnish		ikävyys (tediousness, trouble), ikävä (boredom, dull, longing, regret, tedious, tiresome, unfortunate, uninteresting, unpleasant). (various references)

French		ennui. (various references)

German		stumpfsinn (mindlessness, monotony), Langeweile (boredom, ennui, stuffiness, tediousness), Alltags.... (various references)

Greek		ανία (boredom, ennui, irksomeness). (various references)

Hebrew		שעמום (bore, boredom, dreariness, dryness, dullness, humdrum, monotony, prosiness), �"שתעממות (being bored, boredom, dullness, tediousness). (various references)

Hungarian		unalom (bore, boredom, dullness, ennui, weariness), unalmasság (dryness, languidity, wearisomeness). (various references)

Indonesian		rasa bosan. (various references)

Italian		tedio (boredom, humdrum), noia (annoyance, bore, boredom, bother, dullness, ennui, molestation, nuisance, trouble). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		辛気 (fretfulness), 退屈 (boredom), � 屈 (boredom), �'然 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たいくつ (boredom), し�"き (divinity, encouragement, feelings, fretfulness, mind, novel, novelty, one's mental state or attitude, originality, sacred treasure, spirit, stimulation, the elements, the three sacred treasures), つれづれ, とぜ�". (various references)

Korean		무료. (various references)

Manx		dreeid (monotony). (various references)

Pig Latin		ediumtay.(various references)

Portuguese		tédio (boredom, doldrums, Enoch, loathsome, tiresomeness, weariness), saciedade (glut, repletion, satiation, satiety, surfeit), enfado (boredom, nauseate, pet, phew, tiresomeness, vapidity, vexation, weariness), aborrecimento (annoyance, bore, boredom, bother, botheration, caliber, calibre, ennui, inconvenience, nuisance, phew, resentment, satiety, trouble, unpleasantness, vexation, weariness). (various references)

Romanian		urât (abominable, bad, badly, boredom, dirty, ennui, filthy, foul, haggish, hateful, hideous, ill-featured, little, low, megrim, naughty, opprobrious, sour, squalid, ugly, unbecoming, unfairly, unsightly, vicious, villainous, wicked), plictisealã (bore, boredom, botheration, ennui, flatness, heaviness, monotony, ponderosity, prolixity, spleen, tediousness, trouble, weariness), obosealã (fag, fatigue, languor, lassitude, tiredness, weariness). (various references)

Russian		скука (bore, boredom, ennui, monotony, weariness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		monotonija (monotone, monotony), dosada (boredom, dullness, ennui, heretofore, hitherto, humdrum, idleness, monotony). (various references)

Spanish		tedio (boredom, disgust, ennui, tediousness, weariness). (various references)

Swedish		tråkighet (annoyance, insipidity, tediousness, trouble), leda (articulate, beacon, boredom, boss, captain, channel, conduct, convey, direct, disgust, ennui, fugle, go, govern, guide, lead, loathing, open, operate, pilot, route, take, wheel). (various references)

Thai		ความน่าเบื่อ (banality). (various references)

Turkish		sıkıntı (adversity, agitation, annoyance, anxiety, bore, boredom, bother, botheration, difficulty, dire straits, discomfort, distress, doldrums, draft, embarrassment, famine, fear, fret, gloom, gloominess, grayness, greyness, groan, hardship, heebie-jeebies, inconvenience, incubus, infliction, load, megrims, mopes, nuisance, oppression, pill, pip, pressure, rigor, rigour, rock, scrape, Strait, straits, stringency, the megrims, toil, toils, tribulation, trouble, vexation, weight, willies), can sıkıntısı (blahs, boredom, dullness, ennui, megrims, the blues, the megrims), bezginlik (prostration, weariness), bıkkınlık (bellyful, boredom, disgust, ennui, surfeit, tiredness, weariness, willies). (various references)

Ukranian		стомливість (fatigue, weariness), нудьга (bore, boredom, damp, distemper, dullness, ennui, insipidity, insipidness, monotony, mope, needle, yearn, yearning). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính thiếu hấp dẫn (tediousness), tính nhạt nhẽo (mawkishness, tediousness), tính chán ngắt (longsomeness, tediousness), tỉnh tẻ (tediousness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	taedii, taedio, taedium. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "tedium": tediums. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Tedium" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bedium, edium, Gedamu, tedi, tediom, tedius, teiu, telium, texium, tidiun, Titium. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "tedium" (pronounced tē"dēum)
5	-ē" d ē u m	medium.
4	-d ē u m	compendium, idiom, indium, iridium, myocardium, nephridium, palladium, Plasmodium, podium, presidium, radium, rhodium, sodium, stadium, vanadium.
3	-ē u m	alluvium, ammonium, aquarium, atrium, auditorium, axiom, bacterium, barium, beryllium, cadmium, calcium, cesium, chromium, colloquium, condominium, consortium, crematorium, delirium, deuterium, disequilibrium, emporium, equilibrium, europium, fermium, gallium, geranium, gonium, gymnasium, hafnium, harmonium, helium, Herbarium, holmium, honorarium, lawrencium, linoleum, lithium, magnesium, millennium, minium, moratorium, neptunium, niobium, nobelium, opium, opprobrium, osmium, pandemonium, paramecium, petroleum, planetarium, plutonium, polonium, potassium, premium, promethium, protium, psyllium, requiem, selenium, strontium, superpremium, symposium, tellurium, thallium, thorium, titanium, tritium, uranium, yttrium, zirconium.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-i-m-t-u"
	-1 letter: demit, muted, timed, tumid.
	-2 letters: diet, dime, dite, duet, duit, edit, emit, etui, idem, item, mite, mute, tide, tied, time.
	-3 letters: die, dim, dit, due, dui, emu, med, met, mid, mud, mut, ted, tie, tui.
	-4 letters: de, ed, em, et, id, it, me, mi, mu, ti, um, ut.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-i-m-t-u"
	+1 letter: imputed, minuted, mutined, tediums.
	+2 letters: diestrum, dumpiest, imbruted, impudent, mistuned, muddiest, multiped, muriated, mutinied, rudiment, summited, tumefied, unmitred.
	+3 letters: admixture, amplitude, ctenidium, dentalium, deuterium, diestrums, drumliest, fumigated, imprudent, magnitude, misquoted, misrouted, missuited, mouldiest, multihued, multimode, multipeds, multitude, mutilated, outsmiled, rudiments, ruminated, simulated, smudgiest, submitted, triumphed, turmoiled, ultimated, unlimited, unmerited, unmitered, untrimmed.
	+4 letters: admixtures, amplitudes, audiometer, audiometry, bigmouthed, comminuted, culminated, customised, customized, demounting, dentaliums, deuteriums, diminutive, dismounted, dumbwaiter, duumvirate, eudiometer, fulminated, humidities, humiliated, importuned, impudently, inducement, magnitudes, manumitted, micturated, miscounted, misdoubted, miseducate, mistouched, mistrusted, mistutored, mucidities, multiarmed, multigrade, multilobed, multimedia, multipaned, multiplied, multisided, multispeed, multitudes, munitioned, mutineered, mutualized, outclimbed, rheumatoid, rudimental, seminudity, similitude, stimulated, sublimated, submediant, tumidities, udometries, unadmitted, undomestic, unmediated.
	+5 letters: adumbrative, adventurism, antependium, antheridium, audiometers, audiometric, automatized, automobiled, autotomized, bituminized, calumniated, desideratum, diminutives, dissimulate, documenting, drumbeating, dumbwaiters, duumvirates, edutainment, endometrium, endothecium, endothelium, eudaemonist, eudiometers, eudiometric, illuminated, impoundment, imprudently, inducements, mandibulate, manipulated, mediastinum, mediumistic, midlatitude, misadjusted, misbuttoned, miscomputed, miseducated, miseducates, misjudgment, moisturised, moisturized, mucopeptide, multibladed, multicelled, multicoated, multiheaded, multimanned, multimedias, multiplexed, multitasked, multitiered, mundanities, mustachioed, outdreaming, outpromised, promptitude, quitclaimed, resubmitted, rudimentary, similitudes, simulcasted, submediants, thermoduric, tolbutamide, traumatised, traumatized, umbilicated, unamortized, uncommitted, unlimitedly, unmedicated, unmentioned, unmitigated, unmonitored, unmotivated, widemouthed.
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