Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being tedious; wearisomeness; prolixity; tiresomeness; slowness: tedium.
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- noun The quality of being
tedious ;wearisomeness ;prolixity ;tiresomeness ;slowness ;tedium .
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- noun dullness owing to length or slowness
Etymologies
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Examples
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Its tediousness is proverbial; and so special is the care of life and the resolution to prevent a catastrophe, that not even was Crab permitted to travel in our carriage, which was attached to the train.
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Yes, wherever the blame lies, there can be no doubt about it, that what this hilarious scoffer calls the tediousness of the way is but a too common experience among many of those who, tediousness and all, will still cleave fast to it and will never leave it.
Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878
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The other kind of tediousness is only relative: a reader may find a work dull because he has no interest in the question treated of in it, and this means that his intellect is restricted.
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The trial lasted a whole hour, the intention being, I suppose, to reproduce that tediousness which is so characteristic of real trials.
Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889
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Then again, what Atheist calls the "tediousness" of the journey has undoubtedly a great hand in making some half-in-earnest men sceptics, if not scoffers.
Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878
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"tediousness" upon Leonato and by his own impatience.
Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies Charlotte Endymion Porter 1900
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Mixing in other characters helped reduce the tediousness of the fights.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » How I Would Reboot Superman 2009
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Also, the fights are tedious in your opinion, not the opinions of other people; if your basic opinion on the tediousness of super-strength was true, most people would not have liked the recent Incredible Hulk movie.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » How I Would Reboot Superman 2009
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Some of the biggest problems in medicine don't get written about, because they don't concern eye-catching things such as one patient's valiant struggle: they're protected from public scrutiny by a wall of tediousness.
How flimsy research gets inferior drugs to market | Ben Goldacre 2011
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Mixing in other characters helped reduce the tediousness of the fights.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » How I Would Reboot Superman 2009
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