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Ann Oui - ennui - en-nui - \ˌän-ˈwē\ - boredom
<the kind of ennui that comes from having too much time on one's hands and too little will to find something productive to do>
"When the antiproton was discovered … it sent a wave of ennui through the physics community. Not that its discovery was unimportant, but on the basis of Dirac's theory, everybody expected it."
French, from Old French "enui" - annoyance
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