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prettygoodwordlongueur (lawng-GUR) - n., a long, tedious passage in a book, play, etc.
The parts you want to skip over/fast-forward through/etc. Technically, a longueur is not necessarily long, but that's so strongly a connotation that I think of it as part of the denotation. When it's that kind of dull and tedious, it feels long. Plus it's implied by the etymology: this was taken from French in the 18th century, where longueur is literally length, from Latin longus. Applications to your daily routine are at your discretion.
---L.
The parts you want to skip over/fast-forward through/etc. Technically, a longueur is not necessarily long, but that's so strongly a connotation that I think of it as part of the denotation. When it's that kind of dull and tedious, it feels long. Plus it's implied by the etymology: this was taken from French in the 18th century, where longueur is literally length, from Latin longus. Applications to your daily routine are at your discretion.
---L.
