0 a feeling of being bored and mentally tired caused by having nothing interesting or exciting to do:
This would explain your ennui and the enormous amount of time you seem to have on your hands.
A yearning for life has turned into disenchantment and ennui.
Here, therefore, is the rub: awareness of high proficiency, ennui, and, as described below, the notion of negligible career prospects trigger an occupational apex or plateau.
It should be observed that put this way, love is subjected to a strictly instrumental evaluation; it is celebrated merely as a reassurance against personal ennui.
Why have we this sense of lassitude, of ennui, throughout the economy?
He also says that betting among the working people is largely due to ennui.
It is due to ennui, and he adds that the problem which presents itself with regard to them is how to compel them to find occupations of social value.
In any event, all of us who are regular attenders at these debates feel a little ennui in repeating what we have said before on these issues.
