HOW TO PRONOUNCE
ennui
/ɑnˈwi/
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What does ennui mean?
noun
- A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.
verb
- To make bored or listless; to weary.
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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."
It was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an appalling and hopeless ennui.
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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.
Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam.
The surmise of my maturer years is that, bored by her interminable life, the venerable antiquity was simply yawning with ennui at every seam.