BOREDOM Antonyms

• a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war

• a meeting arranged in advance

• a mutual promise to marry

• the act of giving someone a job

• employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time

• contact by fitting together

• the act of sharing in the activities of a group

• the pleasure felt when having a good time

• act of receiving pleasure from something

• (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property

• an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention

• a feeling of excitement

• overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval

• a lively interest

• the feeling of lively and cheerful joy

• the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up

• something that agitates and arouses

• disturbance usually in protest

• the state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror)

• a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual

• the capacity to attract intense interest

• a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something

• a reason for wanting something done

• the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.)

• a fixed charge for borrowing money; usually a percentage of the amount borrowed

• (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something

• (usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims

• a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly)

• excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of

• be on the mind of

• be of importance or consequence

• a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends

• a clandestine love affair

• cause to be interested or curious

• form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner

• a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience

• something or someone that provides a source of happiness

• a formal expression

• an activity that affords enjoyment

• sexual gratification

• the act of arousing an organism to action

• any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action

• (physiology) the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.)

• mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse

• the swift release of a store of affective force

• an almost pleasurable sensation of fright

• something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation

• cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input

• feel sudden intense sensation or emotion

• tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement

• fill with sublime emotion