Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TE'DI-OUS-NESS, n.

1. Wearisomeness by length of continuance or by prolixity; as, the tediousness of an oration or argument.
2. Prolixity; length. Shak.
3. Tiresomeness; quality of wearying; as, the tediousness of delay.
4. Slowness that wearies.