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ennui

/ɑnˈwi/

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What does ennui mean?

noun

  1. A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.

verb

  1. To make bored or listless; to weary.

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IPA pronunciation

/ɑnˈwi/

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"It is I who have lived," writes George Sand, "and not an unreal being created by my pride and my ennui."
René DoumicGeorge Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and WritingsTranslated by Alys HallardProject Gutenberg ebook #138
It was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an appalling and hopeless ennui.
Kate ChopinThe Awakening, and Selected Short StoriesProject Gutenberg ebook #160
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Nobody would say that it is burdensome, and yet everybody knows, again, that a large group of evil deeds spring from ennui.
Hans GrossCriminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and StudentsTranslated by Horace Meyer KallenProject Gutenberg ebook #1320
Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam.
Henry David ThoreauWalden, and On The Duty Of Civil DisobedienceProject Gutenberg ebook #205
The surmise of my maturer years is that, bored by her interminable life, the venerable antiquity was simply yawning with ennui at every seam.
Joseph ConradThe Mirror of the SeaProject Gutenberg ebook #1058