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Fatigue vs Boredom - What's the difference?

fatigue | boredom |

As nouns the difference between fatigue and boredom

is that fatigue is a weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion while boredom is the state of being bored.

As a verb fatigue

is to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.

fatigue

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=December 29 , author=Paul Doyle , title=Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=Alan Pardew finished by far the most frustrated man at the Emirates, blaming fatigue for the fact that Arsenal were able to kill his team off in the dying minutes.}}
  • A menial task, especially in the military.
  • (engineering) A mechanism of material failure involving of crack growth caused by low-stress cyclic loading.
  • * 2013 , N. Dowling, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials , page 399
  • Mechanical failures due to fatigue have been the subject of engineering efforts for more than 150 years.

    Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * fatigues (military work clothing)

    Verb

    (fatigu)
  • to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion
  • to lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted
  • (intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) to undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
  • 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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