ennui
Speech parts
1. ennui - Noun
2. ennui - Verb
Meaning
A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium.
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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.