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Disgust vs Boredom - What's the difference?

disgust | boredom |

As nouns the difference between disgust and boredom

is that disgust is an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty while boredom is the state of being bored.

As a verb disgust

is to cause an intense dislike for something.

disgust

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cause an intense dislike for something.
  • It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.
  • * 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
  • It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust . There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.

    Noun

    (wikipedia disgust) (-)
  • An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
  • With an air of disgust , she stormed out of the room.

    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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