Today’s Word “ennui”

June 3rd, 2008 by admin |

ennui on-WEE (noun) – A feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction arising from lack of interest; boredom.

“The day at Swampscott passed in ennui, the lack of activity causing the three attorneys to make constant calls to their offices in the hopes that someone wanted their services…” — Robert Ludlum, ‘The Road to Omaha’

Ennui is from the French, from Old French enui, “annoyance,” from enuier, “to annoy, to bore,” from the Latin phrase in odium, “in hatred or dislike.”

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