📚 Ennui, noun. 🔉 /ɒnˈwiː/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement. ❗️ Examples: 1. He succumbed to ennui and despair. 2. The physical environment itself is a crucial factor in the creation of unhappiness, ennui, anger, alienation and despair. 3. He is portraying an English landscape of barren trees, a place of despair, ennui and fear. 4. But for those who are privileged to get their life extended forever, will boredom and ennui not set in? 5. The animals at the zoo seem to be caught in that some place in-between world weariness and ennui. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic