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Can cats experience ennui? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I'm guessing that your cat is bored.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

From Wordnik.com: ennui (on WEE) - noun - A painful or wearisome state of mind due to the want of any object of interest, or to enforced attention to something destitute of interest; the condition of being bored; tedium. ... A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom. ... from Old French enui, from ennuyer, to annoy, bore; see annoy.

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