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Annoyance vs Boredom - What's the difference?

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In countable|lang=en terms the difference between annoyance and boredom

is that annoyance is (countable) an act or instance of annoying while boredom is (countable) an instance or period of a state of being bored; a variety of bored state.

In uncountable|lang=en terms the difference between annoyance and boredom

is that annoyance is (uncountable) the psychological state of being annoyed or irritated while boredom is (uncountable) the state of being bored.

As nouns the difference between annoyance and boredom

is that annoyance is (countable) that which annoys while boredom is (uncountable) the state of being bored.

annoyance

English

Alternative forms

* annoyaunce (obsolete)

Noun

(wikipedia annoyance)
  • (countable) That which annoys.
  • (countable) An act or instance of annoying.
  • (uncountable) The psychological state of being annoyed or irritated.
  • Synonyms

    * nark

    boredom

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The state of being bored.
  • * 1852 , (Charles Dickens), ,
  • 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.
  • (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 , 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.
  • * 1999 , Michael L. Raposa, Boredom and the Religious Imagination , 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.
  • * See more citations at boredoms.
  • Synonyms

    * (state of being bored) ennui

    See also

    * accidie * acedia * ennui

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