Boringness vs Boredom - What's the difference?
boringness | boredom |
The state or condition of being boring.
*1948 , John Lehmann, The Penguin new writing :
*1964 , Stephen Spender, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Encounter :
*1997 , Eugene H. Elias (Jr), The American University, The role of boredom and anxiety in early Heidegger :
*2005 , Elizabeth Cody Kimmel, Lily B. on the Brink of Cool :
(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 boringness and boredom
is that boringness is the state or condition of being boring while boredom is the state of being bored.boringness
English
Noun
(-)- Instinctively, before they had a chance to open their mouths, she knew not only that they were bores but the quality of their boringness .
- More than one critic has said, of course, that the boringness of the "New Novel" is a feature of its authenticity.
- An Analysis of Superficial Boredom and Its Relation to the Boring Object Heidegger does not begin his analysis of "superficial boredom" with boredom itself but with what is boring, or the boringness of a boring object.
- Friends with me , the poster child for imperfection and boringness .
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.