Monotony

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  • noun. Uniformity or lack of variation in pitch, intonation, or inflection.
  • noun. Tedious sameness or repetitiousness.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Uniformity of tone or sound; want of inflections of voice in speaking or reading; want of cadence or modulation; monotone.
  • noun. Tiresome uniformity or lack of variation in any respect; sameness; want of variety.
  • noun. In mathematics:
  • noun. Continual increase, or continual decrease.
  • noun. Unchanging character, neither increasing nor decreasing.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A frequent recurrence of the same tone or sound, producing a dull uniformity; absence of variety, as in speaking or singing.
  • noun. Any irksome sameness, or want of variety.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.
  • noun. The property of a monotonic function.
  • noun. The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety
  • noun. constancy of tone or pitch or inflection
  • Word Usage
    "[Sidenote: Monotony] (4) Remember that monotony is the curse of labor for both child and adult, but that _monotony cannot exist where new intellectual insights are constantly being given_."
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