Boredom vs Boredness - What's the difference?
boredom | boredness |
(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 boredom and boredness
is that boredom is the state of being bored while boredness is the state or condition of being bored; boredom.boredom
English
(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.