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==Origin==

==Origin==

The first recorded use of the [[word]] ''boredom'' is in the [[novel]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleak_House Bleak House] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens Charles Dickens], written in 1852, in which it appears six times, although the [[expression]] to be a ''bore'' had been used in the sense of "to be tiresome or dull" since 1768. The French term for boredom, ''ennui'', is sometimes used in [[English]] as well.

The first recorded use of the [[word]] ''boredom'' is in the [[novel]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleak_House Bleak House] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens Charles Dickens], written in 1852, in which it appears six times, although the [[expression]] to be a ''bore'' had been used in the sense of "to be tiresome or dull" since 1768. The French term for boredom, ''ennui'', is sometimes used in [[English]] as well.

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 1852]

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 1852]

==Definitions==

==Definitions==

*1: The [[state]] of [[being]] [[weary]] and restless through lack of interest  

*1: The [[state]] of [[being]] [[weary]] and restless through lack of interest