Re: USAGE: Words for "boredom"

Quoting Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:

> >     Or does Hawai'i not count as a pre-industrial society?
>
> Unless the term arose post-colonially, certainly it'd count as
> pre-industrial.
Okay, so I did a search of the online Perseus dictionary of
Ancient Greek, and it came up with <alus> for boredom, which
seems also to have the flavor of "agitation".  This should
be fairly conclusive that you can be preindustrial, and yet
have a word for "boredom".

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