Art breaks the monotony of our life.
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Monotony
//məˈnɒtəni//
Synonyms for "monotony" (98 found)
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Strong matches (29)
Related words (49)
near rhymeorderlinessovertonepartialpartial tonepitchpitter patterpitter-patterplenituderegularityrepeated soundsrepetitiousnessrepetitivenessrhymesamelinesssamenessseamlessnesssingsongslant rhymesmoothness
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squirrel cagestabilitystale repetitionsteadinesssteady statesuccessivenesstediumthe beaten trackthe daily roundthe roundthe squirrel cagethe treadmillthe weary roundtonetonelessnesstreadmilltrotunbrokennessundeviationundifferentiationuniformityunintermittednessuninterruptednessuninterruptionunnecessary repetitionunrelievednessunvariationwearisome sameness
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29 translations across 20 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- еднообразие noun (tedium)
- монотонност noun (tedium)
Catalan
1 entries- monotonia noun (tedium)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 單調 /单调 noun (tedium)
- 單調性 /单调性 noun (property of mathematical function)
Czech
1 entries- monotónnost noun (tedium)
Danish
1 entries- monotoni noun (tedium)
Esperanto
1 entries- monotoneco noun (tedium)
Finnish
1 entries- yksitoikkoisuus noun (tedium)
French
1 entries- monotonie noun (tedium)
Galician
2 entries- monotonía noun (tedium)
- monotonía noun (property of mathematical function)
German
3 entries- Eintönigkeit noun (tedium)
- Monotonie noun (tedium)
- Monotonie noun (property of mathematical function)
Greek
1 entries- μονοτονία noun (property of mathematical function)
Greenlandic
1 entries- assigiiaamik periaaseqarneq noun (tedium)
Hungarian
1 entries- monotónia noun (tedium)
Icelandic
1 entries- einhalli noun (property of mathematical function)
Irish
2 entries- leadrán noun (tedium)
- liostacht noun (tedium)
Māori
1 entries- takeo noun (tedium)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- Lankwiel noun (tedium)
- Äwadreessichkjeit noun (tedium)
Portuguese
2 entries- monotonia noun (tedium)
- monotonia noun (property of mathematical function)
Romanian
2 entries- monotonie noun (tedium)
- monotonie noun (property of mathematical function)
Spanish
1 entries- monotonía noun (tedium)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Monotony develops when you harp on the same string.
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I was bored with the monotony of daily life.
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Love is like some fresh spring, that leaves its cresses, its gravel bed and flowers to become first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.
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