Main Entry: ennui: Pronunciation: n-'wE Function: noun Etymology: French, from Old French enui annoyance, from enuier to annoy more at ANNOY: a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction : <font color="#0000FF"BOREDOM
Hmmmmm....
Ennui. Sounds so much more "continental" than BORED.
More complex perhaps? More tortured? Sophisticated? Nuanced? DEEP?
(You wish.)
Okay syn. ANNOY
Main Entry: annoy - Pronunciation: &-'noi Function: verbEtymology: Middle English anoien, from Middle French enuier, from Late Latin inodiare to make loathsome, from Latin in + odium hatred -- more at ODIUMtransitive senses1 : to disturb or irritate especially by repeated acts2 : to harass especially by quick brief attacksintransitive senses : to cause annoyance- an·noy·er nounsynonyms ANNOY, VEX, IRK, BOTHER mean to upset a person's composure. ANNOY implies a wearing on the nerves by persistent petty unpleasantness . VEX implies greater provocation and stronger disturbance and usually connotes anger but sometimes perplexity or anxiety . IRK
....a wearing on the nerves by persistent petty unpleasantness.
THAT'S IT!
Though we can hardly call people blowing things up and charging around with their hair on fire in the streets because they are offended by cartoons.... petty. (Which cartoons by the way have multiplied exponentially because of their nonsense.) We would never have seen them since we don't live in Denmark, but now the whole world has seen them. Don't they GET it?
But this insanity reported on a daily basis has engendered in me a royal case of ...... something.
It's not anger. I can't stay angry long. It's not hopelessness, because I am hopeful. It's not despair, because I don't believe in cultivating that quality.
The closest I can come to it is ennui, with a side of anxiety.
Anxious ennui.
But that is an oxymoron.
(There's your existential trouble right there.)
I have a headache.
Hmmmmm....
Ennui. Sounds so much more "continental" than BORED.
More complex perhaps? More tortured? Sophisticated? Nuanced? DEEP?
(You wish.)
Okay syn. ANNOY
Main Entry: annoy - Pronunciation: &-'noi Function: verbEtymology: Middle English anoien, from Middle French enuier, from Late Latin inodiare to make loathsome, from Latin in + odium hatred -- more at ODIUMtransitive senses1 : to disturb or irritate especially by repeated acts2 : to harass especially by quick brief attacksintransitive senses : to cause annoyance- an·noy·er nounsynonyms ANNOY, VEX, IRK, BOTHER mean to upset a person's composure. ANNOY implies a wearing on the nerves by persistent petty unpleasantness . VEX implies greater provocation and stronger disturbance and usually connotes anger but sometimes perplexity or anxiety . IRK
....a wearing on the nerves by persistent petty unpleasantness.
THAT'S IT!
Though we can hardly call people blowing things up and charging around with their hair on fire in the streets because they are offended by cartoons.... petty. (Which cartoons by the way have multiplied exponentially because of their nonsense.) We would never have seen them since we don't live in Denmark, but now the whole world has seen them. Don't they GET it?
But this insanity reported on a daily basis has engendered in me a royal case of ...... something.
It's not anger. I can't stay angry long. It's not hopelessness, because I am hopeful. It's not despair, because I don't believe in cultivating that quality.
The closest I can come to it is ennui, with a side of anxiety.
Anxious ennui.
But that is an oxymoron.
(There's your existential trouble right there.)
I have a headache.
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