monotony
English edit
Etymology edit
From French monotonie, from Late Latin monotonia, from Ancient Greek μονοτονία (monotonía, “sameness of tone, monotony”).
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /məˈnɑtəni/, /məˈnɑtni/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /məˈnɒtəni/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: mo‧not‧o‧ny
Noun edit
monotony (plural monotonies)
- Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 24:
- 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,...
- 1907, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 1, in Through the Magic Door[1], archived from the original on 12 April 2011:
- Yet second-hand romance and second-hand emotion are surely better than the dull, soul-killing monotony which life brings to most of the human race.
- (mathematics) The property of a monotonic function.
- The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch.
Synonyms edit
- (tedium): boredom, sameness; see also Thesaurus:tedium
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Translations edit
tedium
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property of mathematical function
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