ennui.

A bored, listless dissatisfaction with life or one’s surroundings.

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• pervasive ennui

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Ennui settled over the long afternoon.

Travel failed to relieve her ennui.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.