The continental model encourages less work at the cost of boredom.
But that's no excuse for allowing our attention to waver or letting boredom get the better of us at any stage of the process.
Intended to maintain calm, the ordinance succeeded in enforcing boredom.
My opinion: people drink in excess due to loneliness, boredom and/or escapism.
Consumerism is installed in communities living on subsistence and boredom abounds in affluent societies.
There is plenty of summer vacation season left on the calendar, and boredom may already be settling in around the house.
Avoid staying in bed for long periods of time while awake, or going to bed because of boredom.
His motivation as a teacher was that he loved what he taught and wanted others to find more than boredom in his field.
Most casual visitors will swear time has stopped dead, that the only thing growing faster than the wheat is boredom.
In addition, intelligent people tend to pursue new, stimulating experiences to stave off boredom.
British Dictionary definitions for boredom
boredom
/ˈbɔːdəm/
noun
1.
the state of being bored; tedium
Word Origin and History for boredom
n.
"state of being bored," 1852, from bore (v.1) + -dom. It also has been employed in a sense "bores as a class" (1883) and "practice of being a bore" (1864, a sense properly belonging to boreism, 1833).