monotony

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French monotonie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  monotonia, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek μονοτονία (monotonía, “sameness of tone, monotony”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈnɑtəni/
• IPA^(key): /məˈnɒtəni/

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• Hyphenation: mo‧not‧o‧ny

Noun

monotony (plural monotonies)

1. Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 1, in Through the Magic Door‎^[1]:

     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.

2. (mathematics) The property of a monotonic function.
3. The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch.

Synonyms

• (tedium): boredom, sameness; see also Thesaurus:tedium

Antonyms

• polytony

Derived terms

• monotone
• monotonous

Translations

tedium

• Catalan: monotonia f
• Danish: monotoni
• Finnish: yksitoikkoisuus (fi)
• French: monotonie (fr) f
• German: Eintönigkeit (de) f, Monotonie (de) f
• Greenlandic: assigiiaamik periaaseqarneq
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• Irish: leadrán m, liostacht f
• Maori: takeo
• Romanian: monotonie (ro)
• Spanish: monotonía (es) f

property of mathematical function

• German: Monotonie (de) f
• Greek: μονοτονία (el) f (monotonía)
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• Icelandic: einhalli m
• Romanian: monotonie (ro)

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} eentonigheid f
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• Irish: ^{(please verify)} aontonacht f

Anagrams

• ontonomy