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  • 31prolixity — Synonyms and related words: bedizenment, big mouth, boringness, candor, cloud of words, communicativeness, conversableness, dullness, duplication, duplication of effort, effusion, effusiveness, embellishment, expletive, extravagance, fat,… …

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  • 32sameness — Synonyms and related words: accordance, agreement, alikeness, alliance, analogy, aping, approach, approximation, assimilation, broken record, clockwork regularity, closeness, coequality, coincidence, community, comparability, comparison,… …

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  • 33squirrel cage — Synonyms and related words: beat, beaten path, broken record, bureaucracy, bureaucratism, chinoiserie, daily grind, grind, groove, humdrum, invariability, irk, irksomeness, jog trot, monotony, red tape, red tapeism, round, routine, run, rut,… …

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  • 34tedium — Synonyms and related words: alliteration, angst, anguish, anxiety, assonance, banality, boredom, changelessness, cheerlessness, chime, colorlessness, dingdong, discomfort, discomposure, discontent, dislike, displeasure, disquiet, dissatisfaction …

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  • 35treadmill — Synonyms and related words: beat, beaten path, branks, broken record, bureaucracy, bureaucratism, chinoiserie, clockwork regularity, constancy, crank, cucking stool, daily grind, daily round, dingdong, dirty work, donkeywork, drone, drudgery,… …

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  • 36boredom — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. ennui, lack of interest, weariness, world weariness, taedium vitae (Latin), tedium, tiresomeness, apathy, wearisomeness, doldrums, listlessness, irksomeness, the blahs*; see also dullness 1 , indifference 1 , monotony . II… …

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  • 37irksome — bothersome, burdensome, early 15c., from IRK (Cf. irk) + SOME (Cf. some). Related: Irksomely; irksomeness …

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  • 38peskiness — peskɪnɪs n. irksomeness, laboriousness; state of being bothersome, state of being annoying …

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  • 39irksome — [ ə:ks(ə)m] adjective irritating; annoying. Derivatives irksomely adverb irksomeness noun …

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  • 40ennui — n. [Fr.] Listlessness (for want of occupation), languor, tedium, lassitude, wearisomeness, tiresomeness, irksomeness …

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