Monotony
[mə'nɒt(ə)nɪ] or [mə'nɑtəni]
Definition
(noun.) constancy of tone or pitch or inflection.
(noun.) the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; 'he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work'; 'he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners'; 'he hated the sameness of the food the college served'.
Typed by Cedric--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A frequent recurrence of the same tone or sound, producing a dull uniformity; absence of variety, as in speaking or singing.
(n.) Any irksome sameness, or want of variety.
Edited by Jeffrey
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Uniformity, sameness, want of variety.
Checker: Raffles
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Sameness, unvaryingness, tedium
ANT:Variation, relief, diversion
Typist: Norton
Examples
- The monotony was unbroken. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Often as not they disguise it under heroic phrases and still louder affirmation, just as most of us hide our cowardly submission to monotony under some word like duty, loyalty, conscience. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It seemed like a rising above the dreariness of actuality, the monotony of contingencies. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- To me the only death is monotony. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Monotony till midnight. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Bank offered no violence to the wholesome monotony of the town. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I don't know; but I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The delicious monotony of life in our calm seclusion flowed on with me, like a smooth stream with a swimmer who glides down the current. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Why, it was but now that you were dwelling in the advantages of a monotony of two. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I always say to Ellen: Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Anything to vary this detestable monotony. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The monotony of his occupation soothed him, and was in itself a pleasure. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- No it is not,' said Mrs Wilfer, with the same impressive monotony. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He also relieved the monotony of office-work by fitting up the battery circuits to play jokes on his fellow-operators, and to deal with the vermin that infested the premises. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Watch the crowds in front of a bulletin board, finding a vicarious excitement and an abstract relief from the monotony of their own lives. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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