ennui
a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom: The endless lecture produced an unbearable ennui.
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Overall, Twentysomethings is maybe the tidiest portrayal of millennial ennui I’ve seen on television in a while.
‘Twentysomethings: Austin’ Is Netflix’s Horny, Silly Stab at a Pandemic ‘Real World’ | Kyndall Cunningham | December 17, 2021 | The Daily BeastLike the original settlers, my mother and her peers journeyed west expecting to find themselves—or at the very least, freedom from the suburban ennui of middle-class Midwestern life.
‘The Oregon Trail’ Isn’t Just a Game. It’s an American Legacy. | klindsey | December 9, 2021 | Outside OnlineBored teenagers dealing with the world at large may have more devices in-hand now, but that tumult of emotions and ennui remains the same.
Saint Etienne looks to the past but limits the nostalgia | Andy Beta | September 10, 2021 | Washington PostWe meet characters who are going about their days and feeling, you know, normal levels of ennui.
Historically, with the possible exception of cars, Americans have approached made-in-America shopping with a large degree of ennui.
Consumed and eventually disgorged, Pierre is restored to his loving parents, his ennui banished.
The Great American Novel became more concerned with sexual shenanigans and suburban ennui, or rehashing World War II.
Even with all her comforts and a constant, tugging ennui, Mei knows the risks that she faces as an ernai.
China’s Concubine Culture Lives On in Mistress Villages | Brendon Hong | April 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe shenanigans of Intimacy will shake any jaded theater fan from nudity ennui.
New York’s Naughtiest Show (Maybe Avoid the Front Row) | Tim Teeman | January 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTGabe tried to kick his postmodern, adolescent sense of ennui (a “lame” feeling) through members of the opposite sex (“dames”).
The Best Lyrics From Daniel Day-Lewis’s Son’s Rap Song | Amy Zimmerman | November 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an appalling and hopeless ennui.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinIt combats ennui, lassitude, and intolerable vacuity, soothing the nerves and diverting attention from self.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.The sight of them not only fills me with ennui, but I have no intention of presenting your comic papers with material.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonShe's handsome yet, but her muscles are getting that loose look and her eyes are bottomless pits of ennui.
Ancestors | Gertrude Athertonennui is a word one hears constantly; if it rains toute le monde est triste.
The Real Latin Quarter | F. Berkeley Smith
British Dictionary definitions for ennui
/ (ˈɒnwiː, French ɑ̃nɥi) /
a feeling of listlessness and general dissatisfaction resulting from lack of activity or excitement
Origin of ennui
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