The new film finds Riley navigating the ups and downs of teenage life, and a host of new emotions, from "Anxiety" to "Ennui." Ennui is a French word that translates to a kind of existential ...

“If you've ever asked your kid how their day was and gotten the response of 'Fine,' then you already know Ennui,” Mann says of the purple-tinged, eye-rolling character who sinks into the couch ...

Ennui is a new character in the animated film Inside Out 2 and the character represents a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction. The feeling is quite common during adolescence, especially among ...

Three of them you've probably heard of: anxiety, envy, embarrassment. The fourth, called ennui, is perhaps a little less ...

This means the arrival of more “sophisticated” emotions – including Anxiety, Embarrassment, Envy and Ennui. I am a researcher who has studied how boredom shapes media content and use.

But English never hesitates to borrow words that would lose certain subtleties in translation, and angst, ennui, and weltschmerz have made their way into English by offering a little something extra.

Last weekend, "Inside Out 2" scored the second biggest box office release for any animated movie. In it, Riley Anderson, a 13-year-old girl, grapples with the discomfort of becoming a teenager.

Three of them you've probably heard of: anxiety, envy, embarrassment. The fourth, called ennui, is perhaps a little less familiar. Animated as a moody, purple being with bangs, it is the feeling ...