different between duress vs tedium

English

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French duresse, from Latin duritia (“hardness”), from durus (“hard”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dj????s/, /d??????s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /du???s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

duress (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Harsh treatment.
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     The agreements […] made with the landlords during the time of slavery, are only the effect of duress and force.

2. Constraint by threat.
3. (law) Restraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of their liberty by monition or implementation of physical enforcement; legally for the incurring of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats.

Related terms

• endure

Translations

Verb

duress (third-person singular simple present duresses, present participle duressing, simple past and past participle duressed)

1. To put under duress; to pressure.

   Someone was duressing her.

   The small nation was duressed into giving up territory.

Anagrams

• Druses, Suders, druses, sudser

English

Alternative forms

• taedium
• tædium (dated)

Etymology

Latin taedium, from taed?re (“to weary”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ti?.di.?m/
• Rhymes: -i?di?m

Noun

tedium (usually uncountable, plural tediums or tedia)

1. Boredom or tediousness; ennui.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 8

     Yet active life was the genuine soil for his virtues; and he sometimes suffered tedium from the monotonous succession of events in our retirement.

   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 192]:

     Nothing actual ever suits pure expectation and such purity of expectation is a great source of tedium.

Synonyms

• boredom, drudgery, ennui, tediousness

Related terms

• taedium vitae
• tedious

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