Ennui

Noun

 * 1) A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.

Synonyms for Ennui

 * boredom, surfeit, tedium, languor, listlessness.
 * boredom, surfeit, tedium, languor, listlessness.
 * boredom, surfeit, tedium, languor, listlessness.

Antonyms for Ennui
vigor, enthusiasm, ebullience, buoyancy, energy, concentration.

Thesaurus
acedia, angst, anguish, anxiety, apathy, blues, boredness, boredom, cheerlessness, dejection, depression, discomfort, discomposure, discontent, dislike, dispiritedness, displeasure, disquiet, dissatisfaction, doldrums, dread, drowsiness, dullness, dumps, emptiness, enervation, existential woe, fatigue, fed-upness, flatness, grimness, heaviness, hebetude, inanimation, indifference, inquietude, jadedness, joylessness, lack of pleasure, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languor, languorousness, lassitude, lenitude, lentor, lethargy, life-weariness, lifelessness, listlessness, malaise, melancholy, nausea, nongratification, nonsatisfaction, oscitancy, painfulness, pall, passivity, phlegm, sadness, satedness, satiation, satiety, savorlessness, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, somnolence, spiritlessness, spleen, staleness, stupefaction, stupor, supineness, surfeit, taedium vitae, tastelessness, tediousness, tedium, tire, tiredness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, uncomfortableness, unease, uneasiness, unhappiness, unpleasure, unsatisfaction, vexation of spirit, wearifulness, weariness, weary, world-weariness, yawn

Etymology

 * From ennui: <  enui: < enuier: (see ennuyer: and annoy:) <  inodiare: <  odium:

Translations

 * Dutch: lusteloosheid,
 * Finnish: ikävystyminen
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: kedvtelenség, közöny,
 * Italian: noia


 * Japanese:, つれづれ, アンニュイ
 * Polish: znużenie
 * Portuguese: apatia, tédio
 * Russian: скука,
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: ikävä
 * German: ,
 * Icelandic: lífsleiði, óyndi


 * Japanese:, もの憂さ, アンニュイ
 * Russian:, хандра
 * Spanish: melancolía

Etymology
enui:, probably from the verb enuier:

Noun

 * 1)  Boredom; lassitude.
 * 2) * 1832, Honoré de Balzac, La Femme de Trente Ans, Chapter 3,
 * Notre ennui, nos mœurs fades sont le résultat du système politique. — Our boredom, our insipid customs, are the result of the political system.
 * 1)  Trouble, issue, annoyance.

Related terms

 * ennuyer
 * ennuyeux