different between boredom vs antiflow

English

Etymology

From bore +? -dom.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??.d?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b??.d?m/

Noun

boredom (usually uncountable, plural boredoms)

1. (uncountable) The state of being bored.
   • 1852, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, Chapter XII

     […] 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.

2. (countable) An instance or period of being bored; A bored state.
   • 1995, Martin Heidegger, 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.

   • See more citations at boredoms.

Synonyms

• (state of being bored): ennui

Related terms

• bore
• bored
• boring

Translations

See also

• accidie
• acedia
• ennui

Anagrams

• bed-room, bedroom, broomed

English

Etymology

anti- +? flow

Noun

antiflow (uncountable)

1. (psychology) A mental state of boredom and lack of challenge, associated with performing activities one does not want to do.
   • 1992, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Isabella Selega Csikszentmihályi, Optimal experience: psychological studies of flow in consciousness (page 135)

     A second source of antiflow for the blue-collar workers was the type of interaction they had with supervisors.

2. (physics) Flow in an opposite direction.

Translations

Adjective

antiflow (not comparable)

1. That prevents the unwanted flow of a fluid

Anagrams

• antiwolf