Monotony

//məˈnɒtəni// noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.

    "It matters little to trace the rapidity of the land journey, or the monotony of the sea voyage—alike unmarked by adventure. Robert Evelyn landed at Southampton,..."

  2. 2
    constancy of tone or pitch or inflection wordnet
  3. 3
    The property of a monotonic function.
  4. 4
    the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety wordnet
  5. 5
    The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch.

Synonyms

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samenessafalliterationassonanceaudio frequencybeaten path

Example

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"Art breaks the monotony of our life."

Etymology

From French monotonie, from Late Latin monotonia, from Ancient Greek μονοτονία (monotonía, “sameness of tone, monotony”).

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monotonic function

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