A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.
There have always been individuals who toy with the political extremes out of a sort of high-class ennui.
Unadapted borrowing from French ennui, from Old French enui (“annoyance”), from enuier (modern French ennuyer), from Late Latin inodiō, from Latin in odiō (“hated”). Doublet of annoy.
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