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He glanced at his heavily laden bookshelves. Nothing there appealed to him. The ennui seemed to have settled into his very bones. ... He was often off sick or playing hooky and suffered from a kind of ennui, a mixture of listlessness and willful melancholy. ... Etymology of Ennui...
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1.1 Etymology ... Singular; ennui ... Notre ennui, nos mœurs fades sont le résultat du système politique. — Our boredom, our insipid customs, are the result of the political system.
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en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ennui
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ennui 1667, from O.Fr. enui "annoyance," back-formation from envier (see annoy). ... Look up ennui at Dictionary.com ... The Online Etymology Dictionary...
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Origin of ennui – Our etymology dictionary has the origin of the word ennui. Encyclopedia.com: Origins of over 17,000 words. ... ennui; Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ennui XVIII. — F. (cf. ANNOY ).
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Supprimer notre ennui, mais a quel prix? L'effet paradoxal du controle mental de l'ennui durant une tache fastidieuse; Magazine article from: ... ennui; Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ennui XVIII. — F. (cf. ANNOY ). ... The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology...
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Zeitgeist · Word of the day · Blog · Random word ... procrastinate · its not like im ugly people tell me im pretty · be careful! the razor is razor-sharp! · minty-fresh death threat · please stop sucking the monkeybread ... Recently looked up...
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Ennui: Listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest; boredom: ... noun Listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest; boredom: "The servants relieved their ennui with gambling and gossip about their masters” (John Barth).
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Search another word or see ennui on Dictionary ... What causes ennui ... Etymology of ennui...
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thesaurus.reference.com/browse/ennui
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Etymology: "Ennui" and "annoy" were borrowed from the same French word at different points of development of the French language. It all started with the Latin idiomatic phrase, mihi in odio est "I hate or dislike" (literally, “for me [mihi] it is [est] in odiousness [in odio]”).
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