tiresomeness

State of boring

Tiresomeness is the quality of being wearisome or tedious.

The word applies to anything that exhausts patience rather than energy: the tiresomeness of endless meetings, the sheer tiresomeness of his complaints.

It suggests annoyance through repetition or dullness rather than physical fatigue.

tedium

monotony

Tiresome lack of change

sameness · humdrum · dreariness · ennui · banality · insipidity · flatness · vapidity · prosaic · mundaneness

drudgery

toil

Strenuous, prolonged effort

  • grindCrush into particles
  • slogLaborious persistent effort
  • choreRoutine domestic task

labor · travail · plodding · treadmill · gruel · routine · thanklessness · burden · hardship · unending

exhaustion

fatigue

Weariness from prolonged exertion

depletion · burnout · wearing · sapping · grueling · laboriousness · taxing · overtaxing · strain · demanding

annoyance

irksomeness

Quality of annoying

frustration · bothersomeness · irritation · nuisance · pestering · nagging · grating · wearying · trying · taxing

Opposites
engagement quality

tiresomenessexcitement

State of eager enthusiasm

exhilaration · captivation · enthrallment · grippingness · entertainment

novelty and interest

tiresomenessfascination

Intense absorbed interest

interestingness · intrigue · freshness · novelty · liveliness

engagement/interest

tiresomenessfascination

Intense absorbed interest

captivation · excitement · enthrallment · grippingness · intrigue

Family

tired, tire, retire, tiring, retired, tiredness, retirement, tiresome, tireless

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G