» For the Buzzcocks song, see Spiral Scratch (EP). Boredom's an emotional state experienced during periods lacking activity or when individuals are uninterested in the activities presented to them. The first record of the word boredom's in the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens, written in 1852, in which it appears six times, although the expression to be a bore had been used in the sense of "to be tiresome or dull" since 1768. Psychology Image:Challenge_vs_skill.jpg|Boredom in terms of chall… (More on Boredom)