1
: the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness
also
: boredom
2
: a tedious period of time
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Examples of tedium in a Sentence
The movie was three hours of tedium.
I took a day off to relieve the tedium of work.
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According to behavioral science experts, many people who seek out extreme conditions may be motivated by desires to challenge the limits of their physical and psychological abilities, escape personal problems or everyday tedium, or simply for the thrill.
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Yahya Salem, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
Mother’s gradual transformation should give the movie a sense of movement, but because it’s held at a remove, tedium sets in.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2024
For Artaud, true culture operates through exaltation and force, an extremity of experience that breaks through the tedium and wakes us up.
—Simon Critchley, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
This kind of formalist approach, cross-breeding narrative cinema and conceptual art, can be hard to maintain without slipping into tedium.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
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Yahya Salem, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
Mother’s gradual transformation should give the movie a sense of movement, but because it’s held at a remove, tedium sets in.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2024
For Artaud, true culture operates through exaltation and force, an extremity of experience that breaks through the tedium and wakes us up.
—Simon Critchley, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
This kind of formalist approach, cross-breeding narrative cinema and conceptual art, can be hard to maintain without slipping into tedium.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
See all Example Sentences for tedium
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“Tedium.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tedium. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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