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Monotony

Monotony Meaning & Definition
Monotony Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Monotony?

[n] the quality of wearisome constancy and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Monotony: sameness

Related Terms | Find terms related to Monotony: AF | alliteration | assonance | audio frequency | boredom | broken record | ceaselessness | chime | clockwork regularity | consecutiveness | constancy | constant flow | continualness | continuity | continuousness | daily round | dingdong | drone | dryness | endlessness | ennui | equilibrium | even pace | even tenor | featurelessness | flatness | frequency | fullness | fundamental | fundamental tone | gaplessness | harmonic | harping | humdrum | incessancy | intonation | invariability | irk | irksomeness | jingle | jingle-jangle | jointlessness | monologue | monotone | monotonousness | near rhyme | orderliness | overtone | partial | partial tone | pitch | pitter-patter | plenitude | regularity | repeated sounds | repetitiousness | repetitiveness | rhyme | sameliness | sameness | seamlessness | singsong | slant rhyme | smoothness | stability | stale repetition | steadiness | steady state | successiveness | tedium | the beaten track | the daily round | the round | the squirrel cage | the treadmill | the weary round | tone | tonelessness | treadmill | trot | unbrokenness | undeviation | undifferentiation | uniformity | unintermittedness | uninterruptedness | uninterruption | unnecessary repetition | unrelievedness | unvariation | wearisome sameness

See Also | unvariedness

Monotony In Webster's Dictionary

\Mo*not"o*ny\, n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. monotonie. See {Monotonius}.] 1. A frequent recurrence of the same tone or sound, producing a dull uniformity; absence of variety, as in speaking or singing. 2. Any irksome sameness, or want of variety. At sea, everything that breaks the monotony of the surrounding expanse attracts attention. --W. Irving.

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