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In conventional usage, '''boredom''', '''ennui''', or '''tedium''' is an [[emotion]] characterized by uninterest in one's surrounding, often caused by a lack of distractions or occupations. Although, "There is no universally accepted definition of boredom. But whatever it is, researchers argue, it is not simply another name for [[Depression (mood)|depression]] or [[apathy]]. It seems to be a specific [[mental state]] that people find unpleasant—a lack of stimulation that leaves them craving relief, with a host of behavioral, medical and social consequences."<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-boredom-is-anything-but-boring/|title=Why Boredom Is Anything but Boring|first=Maggie|last=Koerth-Baker|journal=Nature|year=2016|volume=529|issue=7585|pages=146–148|doi=10.1038/529146a|pmid=26762441|bibcode=2016Natur.529..146K|access-date=28 April 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170608101457/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-boredom-is-anything-but-boring/|archive-date=8 June 2017|doi-access=free}}</ref> According to BBC News, boredom "...can be a dangerous and disruptive state of mind that damages your [[health]]"; yet research "...suggest[s] that without boredom we couldn't achieve our [[Creativity|creative feats]]."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141218-why-boredom-is-good-for-you|title=Psychology: Why boredom is bad... and good for you|first=David|last=Robson|website=bbc.com|access-date=28 April 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824121704/http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141218-why-boredom-is-good-for-you|archive-date=24 August 2017}}</ref>
In ''Experience Without Qualities: Boredom and Modernity'', Elizabeth Goodstein traces the modern discourse on boredom through literary, philosophical, and sociological texts to find that as "a discursively articulated phenomenon...boredom is at once objective and subjective, emotion and intellectualization—not just a response to the [[modern world]], but also a historically constituted strategy for coping with its discontents."<ref>Goodstein, Elizabeth S. 2005. Experience Without Qualities: Boredom and Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 3.</ref> In both conceptions, boredom has to do fundamentally with an [[Time perception|experience of time]]—such as experiencing the [[Time dilation|slowness of time]]—and problems of [[Meaning (philosophy)|meaning]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Weiss |first1=Emily R. |last2=Todman |first2=McWelling |last3=Pazar |first3=Özge |last4=Mullens |first4=Sophia |last5=Maurer |first5=Kristin |last6=Romano |first6=Alexandra C. |title=When Time Flies: State and Trait Boredom, Time Perception, and Hedonic Task Appraisals |date=2021-04-30 |url=https://psyct.swu.bg/index.php/psyct/article/view/559 |journal=Psychological Thought |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=150–174 |doi=10.37708/psyct.v14i1.559 |s2cid=236539890 |issn=2193-7281|doi-access=free }}</ref>
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