The Not-Boring Truth About Boredom
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What Is Boredom?
When industrialization increased in america and late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it changed the way people thought about work. New workers had a relatively new word to apply to these new jobs. It was finally the word we now know and use, the word boring. The word actually was developed in the background over a few hundred years. In the eighteenth century, the word bore describe a very dull person. And then in the mid nineteenth century, that evolved into the word boredom,. which was a state of mind.
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