Word Meanings - TEDIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness. Cowper. To relieve the tedium, he kept plying them with all manner of bams. Prof. Wilson. The tedium of his office reminded him more strongly of the willing scholar, and his thoughts were rambling. Dickens.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TEDIUM)

• Monotony
• Sameness
• unvaryingness
• tedium

Related words: (words related to TEDIUM)

• MONOTONY
  1. A frequent recurrence of the same tone or sound, producing a dull uniformity; absence of variety, as in speaking or singing. 2. Any irksome sameness, or want of variety. At sea, everything that breaks the monotony of the surrounding expanse
• SAMENESS
  1. The state of being the same, identity; abscence of difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as, a sameness of person, of manner, of sound, of appearance, and the like. "A sameness of the terms." Bp. Horsley. 2. Hence, want of
• TEDIUM
  Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness. Cowper. To relieve the tedium, he kept plying them with all manner of bams. Prof. Wilson. The tedium of his office reminded him more strongly of the willing scholar, and his thoughts were rambling. Dickens.