Associations to the word «Ennui»

Wiktionary

ENNUI, noun. A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.

Dictionary definition

ENNUI, noun. The feeling of being bored by something tedious.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne