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Boredom vs Antiflow - What's the difference?

boredom | antiflow |

As nouns the difference between boredom and antiflow

is that boredom is (uncountable) the state of being bored while antiflow is (psychology) a mental state of boredom and lack of challenge, associated with performing activities one does not want to do.

As an adjective antiflow is

that prevents the unwanted flow of a fluid.

boredom

English

(wikipedia 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

    Related terms

    * bore * bored * boring

    See also

    * accidie * acedia * ennui

    Anagrams

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    antiflow

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (psychology) A mental state of boredom and lack of challenge, associated with performing activities one does not want to do.
  • * 1992 , Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Isabella Selega Csikszentmihályi, Optimal experience: psychological studies of flow in consciousness (page 135)
    • A second source of antiflow for the blue-collar workers was the type of interaction they had with supervisors.
  • (physics)
  • * 2001 , Giovanni C. Bonsignori, Nucleus-nucleus collisions: proceedings of the conference (page 148)
    • Antiflow of pions can be explained by the shadowing effect.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That prevents the unwanted flow of a fluid