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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin taedium (“boredom”) + vītae (“of life”).
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Noun
taedium vitae (uncountable)
- Profound ennui or weariness of one's life.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, page 390:Hence it proceeds many times that they are weary of their lives, and feral thoughts to offer violence to their own persons come into their minds; tædium vitæ is a common symptom […]
1922, Isaac Goldberg, Brazilian Literature, New York: A.A. Knopf, page 154:He was haunted, it seems, by the symbol of a Prometheus wearied of his immortality of anguish,— by the tedium vitae.
1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine:From time to time one of Georges' numerous girls strays into my net by calling at the flat when he is not there, and the incident serves for a while to sharpen my taedium vitae.
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