What is Ennui?
1.
A sense of apathy and lassitude brought about by either societal or personal stagnation. Akin to
As seen in the film L'Avventura, by Michelangelo Antonioni. As characterized in post-war European literature.
2.
A very deep and generalised boredom with one's life.
Some high-schoolers may think they are suffering, because they're "bored and do not want to do their homework"...Yes well it's deeper than that, so no you're not suffering.
Comes from the french word ennuyeux, meaning, boring/annoying
See also,
If any of you have ever read "Education for Leisure", a poem by Carol Ann Duffy, then I can tell you the charcter most definately has this problem
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3.
A painting by Walter Richard Sickert who is also suspected to have been Jack the Ripper.
They look quite bored and life loathing and Ennui in the picture.. but the painting on the wall is that of a woman with the faint brushes of a man watching her in the background. ..maybe with a knife?
