different between exhaustion vs tedium

English

Etymology

From exhaust +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z??s.t??n/

Noun

exhaustion (usually uncountable, plural exhaustions)

1. The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.

2. Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.

3. (dated, chemistry) The removal (by percolation etc) of an active medicinal constituent from plant material.
4. (dated, physics) The removal of all air from a vessel (the creation of a vacuum).
5. (mathematics) An exhaustive procedure

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:fatigue

Derived terms

• proof by exhaustion

Related terms

• exhaust
• exhaustedness

Translations

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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