What's the difference between accidie and boredom?

Accidie


Definition:

  • (n.) Sloth; torpor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After a brief review of the literature, the authors expose pathogeny and clinical signs of this relatively rare accidients.

Boredom


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.
  • (n.) The realm of bores; bores, collectively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I used it primarily as a social lubricant but also to alleviate boredom, stress and loneliness.
  • (2) In a series of analyses guided by intuitive hypotheses, the Smith and Ellsworth theoretical approach, and a relatively unconstrained, open-ended exploration of the data, the situations were found to vary with respect to the emotions of pride, jealousy or envy, pride in the other, boredom, and happiness.
  • (3) We should stop the importation of these birds which are sold as commodities and endure lives of boredom in cages.
  • (4) Is boredom, then, one of the risks associated with great art?
  • (5) It's why he wages his own one-man war in the cinema against boredom: you can experience many things watching his films, but you will never complain of longueurs.
  • (6) Brando directed once - on One-Eyed Jacks (1959) - before boredom and sourness took over, but seldom had the patience, the stamina or the courage to be master of his own fate.
  • (7) It was concluded that ACTH 4-10 counteracts the usual decay in performance as a function of time-on-task due to increasing boredom and mental fatigue.
  • (8) The Boredom Susceptibility subscale of the SSS correlated significantly with the number of sexual partners.
  • (9) One detainee I spoke to told me of racist taunting and abuse by guards, and boredom.
  • (10) Now, the Estonian architecture studio Salto has built an equally inventive solution to the boredom of the morning commute – a 51m (170ft) -long trampoline, so that you can bounce to your destination .
  • (11) These include Paul Helleu hard at work, his new young wife apparently asleep out of boredom in the background.
  • (12) Correlations between partners in the control couples were higher than those between partners in the dysfunctional couples on the SSS Total and Boredom Susceptibility scales, which replicated previous findings.
  • (13) He works the levers of public approval with consummate skill, yet can never quite conceal his slight boredom at how easy it is.
  • (14) The players complain of boredom, and yet don't appear to be able to apply themselves and concentrate.
  • (15) Beginning to feel the first prickles of boredom, I thought of young Nathan, for whom Minecraft was life, until it wasn't.
  • (16) Abnormal eating behaviors such as pica or coprophagy are usually caused by a dietary imbalance or boredom.
  • (17) , who grew his tache in 2010 because of “self-employed procrastination” ie boredom, but is reluctant to shave his off because it would make him look younger.
  • (18) What's staggering is that boredom still has such a wholesome, desirable image.
  • (19) What I actually did was marry the mind-numbing tedium of a second-rate reality show, with the plodding boredom of a sub-standard pub quiz.
  • (20) Responses to subjective questionnaires showed significant increases in boredom for both groups.

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