Monotony

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Monotony \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.
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     2. Any irksome sameness, or want of variety.
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              At sea, everything that breaks the monotony of the
              surrounding expanse attracts attention. --W. Irving.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  monotony
       n 1: 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"
            [syn: {sameness}]
       2: constancy of tone or pitch or inflection

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "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