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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The action of a bore; the condition of being a bore.

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  • Behavior of a boring person. Adopt this word on savethewords.org!

    January 28, 2009

  • JM avoids the company of those afflicted by boreism and never hestitates to repeatedly tell people about this

    March 14, 2009

  • JM declares war on boreism which means it’s a Bore War which entails warring against all manifestations and instances of boreism wherever and whenever encountered because war must be waged at any cost to put a halt to the rampant rise and growth in examples of boreism.

    June 3, 2009

  • The paleontologist's favorite boreism was drawing moustaches on the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

    December 8, 2010