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longueur

/lɒŋˈ(ɡ)ɜː/ UK

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Borrowed from French longueur (literally “length”).

noun longueurs

A lengthy passage in a dramatic or literary work, especially a dull or tedious one; a period of boredom. Most of the reasons given for its disappearance make sense: people are happier, busier; the work done by the anti-Freudian skeptics has finally taken hold of the popular imagination, so that people have no time for analytic longueurs and no patience with its mystifications.

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"longueur." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/longueur. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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longueur. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/longueur

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"longueur." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/longueur.

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@misc{longueur_2026,
  title = {longueur},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/longueur},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}