tediousness

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Century Dictionary (1 definition)

    –noun
  1. The state or quality of being tedious; wearisomeness; prolixity; tiresomeness; slowness: tedium.

Wiktionary (1 definition)

    –noun
  1. The quality of being tedious; wearisomeness; prolixity; tiresomeness; slowness; tedium.

WordNet (1 definition)

    –noun
  1. Dullness owing to length or slowness.

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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.
  • Again, subjective tediousness is merely relative: this is because the reader is not interested in the subject of the work, and that what he takes an interest in is of a very limited nature.
  • The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
 

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