boreism
English
Etymology
bore + -ism
Noun
boreism (plural boreisms)
- The state of being boring.
- 1840, Students of the East India College, The Haileybury Observer, volume 8:
- “An intolerable mixture of impertinence and boreism,—has not even the points of an effective character about him,—or I might make some use of him in a Farce.”
- 1902, Anonymous, The Advisor: A Magazine Devoted to the Interests of Advertisers, volume 7:
- Earnestness should not be allowed to lead to boreism—too much insistence is distasteful.
- 1920, Anonymous, The Seventh Regiment Gazette, volume 35:
- We all looked forward with pleasurable anticipation to the bunking-in with Co. G, but we wot not of the familiarity that never savored of boreism which was ours for the whole two weeks.
Anagrams
- embrios, misbore