monotony

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Etymology

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From French monotonie, from Late Latin monotonia, from Ancient Greek μονοτονία (monotonía, sameness of tone, monotony).

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monotony (plural monotonies)

  1. 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.
    • 2023, “Angel Eyes”, performed by Spiritbox:
      Transform my death into a conduit
      This body separate from the fear of fear
      Inside a coping mechanism of monotony
      I will destroy the double vision that I was forced to leave
  2. (mathematics) The property of a monotonic function.
  3. The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch.

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