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monotony Definition

mo·noto·ny (mə nät′'n ē)

noun

  1. sameness of tone or pitch, or continuance of the same tone without variation
  2. lack of variation or variety
  3. tiresome sameness or uniformity

Etymology: Fr monotonie < Gr monotonia: see monotonous

monotony Synonyms

monotony

n.

invariability, likeness, sameness, tediousness, similarity, continuity, continuance, oneness, identicalness, evenness, levelness, flatness, dreariness, unchangeableness, equability, boredom; jog trot*, even tenor*, the same old thing*; see also boredom, dullness 1.

Antonyms difference*, variability, variety*.

monotony Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • life: It just takes me away from the monotony of daily life.
  • day: Nothing breaks the monotony of a long day in front of the computer like a wad of paper falling through a cheering basket.
  • work: Zyra's website has been described as " an antidote to the inbox " and helps to relieve the monotony of work.
  • landscape: Despite the apparent monotony of this vast landscape, the poachers are able to relocate and recover the ivory months or even years later.
  • existence: He played reporter Jude Redfield who needed the story of his life to break the monotony of existence at the local paper.
  • training: We consciously attempt to inject something to lift the monotony of training.

Converse of object

  • relieve: Sir Arthur had spent many a long weekend with his friend at Bridewell, hoping to relieve the monotony of city life.
  • break: Nothing breaks the monotony of a long day in front of the computer like a wad of paper falling through a cheering basket.
  • avoid: Their design set out to avoid the monotony of the uniform grid plans of the nineteenth century housing.
  • reduce: Changes in color along a corridor help reduce monotony and oppression.
  • vary: From this point I am able to quote from the journal which I kept in order to vary the monotony of the long sea-voyage.
  • escape: Many people choose driving instruction to escape the monotony of a 9 to 5 office or factory based job.

Adjective modifier

  • regular: Public speaking is something that comes round with regular monotony.
  • dull: 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.
  • rational: Rational Monotony: If &Gamma; A, then either &Gamma; &cup; { B } A or &Gamma; ¬ B.
  • endless: Blamgrab came out of his tower, muttering profusely about the endless monotony of the " Egg and Sandwich theory " .
  • sheer: Now the darkness seemed to completely surround us, not a glimmer, or even a building to break the sheer monotony.
  • tiresome: Character Of The Newer Attic Comedy The pieces are of tiresome monotony.
monotony Quotes

Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-clouds thundrous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep: And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass isgreen, lakes damp, and mountains steep And,Wordsworth, both are thine.

—Stephen,J(ames) K(enneth)

There is in Kean, an infinite variety of talent, with a certain monotony of genius.

—Hazlitt,William

Le charme de la nouveaute¤  , peu a'   peu tombant comme un ve" t ement, laissait voir a'   nu l'e¤  ternelle monotonie de la passion, qui a toujours les me"  mes formes et le me"  me langage. The charm of novelty, falling little by little like a robe, revealed the eternal monotony of passion, which has always the same forms and the same language.

—Flaubert, Gustave

There is no manner of doubt that a town surrounded by water is a very fine sight; but a town surrounded by land is much finer.Can there be any comparison in point of beauty, between the dull monotony of a watery surface, and the delightful variety of gardens, meadows, hills and woods ?

—Moore,John

He said that, by god,D. H. Lawrence was right when he had said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly- tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?

—Gibbons, Stella Dorothea

O te¤  dio e¤   a grande enfermidade da escola, o te¤  dio corruptor que tanto se pode gerar da monotonia do trabalho como da ociosidade. Tedium is the worst disease in schools, the corrupting tedium that comes equally from monotony, work or leisure.

—Pompe¤  ia, Raul d'Avila