TEDIOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tediousness mean? 

• TEDIOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun TEDIOUSNESS has 1 sense:

1. dullness owing to length or slowness

  Familiarity information: TEDIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEDIOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dullness owing to length or slowness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

tediousness; tedium; tiresomeness

Hypernyms ("tediousness" is a kind of...):

dullness (the quality of lacking interestingness)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tediousness"):

drag (something tedious and boring)

Derivation:

tedious (using or containing too many words)

tedious (so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness)

 Context examples 

What was tranquillity and comfort to Fanny was tediousness and vexation to Mary.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He knew not what could be the use of those several clefts and divisions in my feet behind; that these were too soft to bear the hardness and sharpness of stones, without a covering made from the skin of some other brute; that my whole body wanted a fence against heat and cold, which I was forced to put on and off every day, with tediousness and trouble: and lastly, that he observed every animal in this country naturally to abhor the Yahoos, whom the weaker avoided, and the stronger drove from them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Restless and dissatisfied every where, her sister could never obtain her opinion of any article of purchase, however it might equally concern them both: she received no pleasure from anything; was only impatient to be at home again, and could with difficulty govern her vexation at the tediousness of Mrs. Palmer, whose eye was caught by every thing pretty, expensive, or new; who was wild to buy all, could determine on none, and dawdled away her time in rapture and indecision.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The tediousness of a two hours' wait at Petty France, in which there was nothing to be done but to eat without being hungry, and loiter about without anything to see, next followed—and her admiration of the style in which they travelled, of the fashionable chaise and four—postilions handsomely liveried, rising so regularly in their stirrups, and numerous outriders properly mounted, sunk a little under this consequent inconvenience.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Is her son determined to submit to this, and to all the tediousness of the many years of suspense in which it may involve you, rather than run the risk of her displeasure for a while by owning the truth?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I never presumed to speak, except in answer to a question; and then I did it with inward regret, because it was a loss of so much time for improving myself; but I was infinitely delighted with the station of an humble auditor in such conversations, where nothing passed but what was useful, expressed in the fewest and most significant words; where, as I have already said, the greatest decency was observed, without the least degree of ceremony; where no person spoke without being pleased himself, and pleasing his companions; where there was no interruption, tediousness, heat, or difference of sentiments.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)