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Boredom vs Frustration - What's the difference?

boredom | frustration |

As nouns the difference between boredom and frustration

is that boredom is (uncountable) the state of being bored while frustration is frustration.

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

    Anagrams

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    frustration

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of frustrating, or the state, or an instance of being frustrated
  • A thing that frustrates
  • The feeling of annoyance when one's actions are criticized or hindered
  • Anger not directed at anything or anyone in particular