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ennui
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French ennui, from Old French enui (“annoyance”), from enuier (modern French ennuyer), from Late Latin inodi?, from Latin in odi? (“hated”). Doublet of annoy.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?wi?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?n?wi/
Noun
ennui (countable and uncountable, plural ennuis)
- A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:ennui.
Synonyms
- acedia
- weltschmerz
- boredom
Related terms
Translations
Verb
ennui (third-person singular simple present ennuis, present participle ennuying, simple past and past participle ennuied or ennuyed)
- (transitive) To make bored or listless; to weary.
French
Etymology
From Old French enui, probably from the verb enuier.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.n?i/
- Homophones: ennuie, ennuient, ennuies, ennuis
- Rhymes: -?i
Noun
ennui m (plural ennuis)
- (uncountable) Boredom; lassitude.
- 1832, Honoré de Balzac, La Femme de Trente Ans, Chapter 3,
- Notre ennui, nos mœurs fades sont le résultat du système politique. — Our boredom, our insipid customs, are the result of the political system.
- 1832, Honoré de Balzac, La Femme de Trente Ans, Chapter 3,
- (uncountable) Trouble, issue, annoyance.
- 1883, Emile Zola, La joie de vivre
- — Mon Dieu ! nous étions d’une inquiétude ! dit le père qui avait suivi son fils, malgré le vent. Qu’est-il donc arrivé ?
— Oh ! des ennuis tout le temps, expliqua-t-elle. D’abord, les chemins sont si mauvais, qu’il a fallu près de deux heures pour venir de Bayeux. Puis, à Arromanches, voilà qu’un cheval de Malivoire se casse une patte ; et il n’a pu nous en donner un autre, j’ai vu le moment qu’il nous faudrait coucher chez lui… Enfin, le docteur a eu l’obligeance de nous prêter son cabriolet. Ce brave Martin nous a conduites…- "We have been very anxious about you," said the father, who had followed his son, in spite of the wind. "What has happened to make you so late ?"
" Oh ! we've had nothing but troubles," she answered. "To begin with, the roads are so bad that it has taken us nearly two hours to come from Bayeux. Then, at Arromanches, one of Malivoire's horses went lame and he couldn't let us have another. At one time I really thought we should have to stay with him all night. But the Doctor was kind enough to offer us his gig, and Martin here has driven us home."
- "We have been very anxious about you," said the father, who had followed his son, in spite of the wind. "What has happened to make you so late ?"
- — Mon Dieu ! nous étions d’une inquiétude ! dit le père qui avait suivi son fils, malgré le vent. Qu’est-il donc arrivé ?
- 1883, Emile Zola, La joie de vivre
Usage notes
- In the sense of "trouble", the word is almost solely used in the expression l'ennui avec (“the trouble with”) or as a plural tantum (see ennuis).
Related terms
- ennuyer
- ennuyeux
Further reading
- “ennui” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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weariness
English
Etymology
From Middle English werynes, werinesse, from Old English w?ri?ness (“weariness”), equivalent to weary +? -ness.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?w???in?s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?w??in?s/
- Hyphenation: weari?ness
Noun
weariness (usually uncountable, plural wearinesses)
- Exhaustion, fatigue or tiredness.
- 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- Now when he had reached the King's capital wherein was Alaeddin, he alighted at one of the Kháns; and, when he had rested from the weariness of wayfare, he donned his dress and went down to wander about the streets, where he never passed a group without hearing them prate about the pavilion and its grandeur and vaunt the beauty of Alaeddin and his lovesomeness, his liberality and generosity, his fine manners and his good morals.
- 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- A lack of interest or excitement.
Synonyms
- defatigation
- fatigue
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