Airplane vs Boredom - What's the difference?
airplane | boredom |
(uncountable) The state of being bored.
* 1852 , (Charles Dickens), ,
(countable) An instance or period of a state of being bored; a variety of bored state.
* 1995 , , William McNeill, Nicholas Walker (translators), The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude ,
* 1999 , Michael L. Raposa, Boredom and the Religious Imagination ,
* See more citations at boredoms.
As nouns the difference between airplane and boredom
is that airplane is (us) a powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings while boredom is (uncountable) the state of being bored.airplane
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Alternative forms
*Derived terms
* paper airplaneSee also
* aircraft * glider * helicopterAnagrams
*boredom
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(wikipedia boredom)Noun
(en-noun)- only last Sunday, my Lady, in the desolation of Boredom and the clutch of Giant Despair, almost hated her own maid for being in spirits.
page 107,
- If we are seeking a more original conception of boredom then we must also correspondingly endeavour to envisage a more original form'' of boredom, thus presumably a boredom in which we become more ''bored than in the situation we have characterized.
page 58,
- Yet that earlier characterization was of a kind of boredom that can be portrayed as resembling acedia; that is, a boredom that I can be held responsible for, either in its genesis or its persistence.
