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monotony en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • [məˈnɔ̟təni] (New-Zealand)
  • /məˈnɒtəni/ (Canada, dialectal) of the US
  • /məˈnɒtəni/ (New-Zealand)
  • /məˈnɔtəni/ (Australia)
  • /məˈnɑtəni/ (General-American, dialectal) of Canada
  • (California, Southern) audio
  • /məˈnɒtəni/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /məˈnɑtni/ (General-American, dialectal) of Canada

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.
    • 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 2023, “Angel Eyes”, performed by Spiritbox:
    • 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,... 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 24:
    • 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. 1907, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 1, in Through the Magic Door, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2011:
  2. The property of a monotonic function.
  3. The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
monotonies Number=Plur lexicographic

Antonyms

polytony

Deriveds

monotonous · monotone · monotonist

Synonyms

sameness · boredom (tedium)

Translations (29)

gl monotonía (property of mathematical function) · fi yksitoikkoisuus (tedium) · pdt Äwadreessichkjeit (tedium) · gl monotonía (tedium) · pdt Lankwiel (tedium) · cmn 單調性 /单调性 (property of mathematical function) · ro monotonie (tedium) · cmn 單調 /单调 (tedium) · de Eintönigkeit (tedium) · pt monotonia (tedium) · ca monotonia (tedium) · hu monotónia (tedium) · el μονοτονία (property of mathematical function) · fr monotonie (tedium) · de Monotonie (property of mathematical function) · de Monotonie (tedium) · mi takeo (tedium) · ro monotonie (property of mathematical function) · es monotonía (tedium) · is einhalli (property of mathematical function) · kl assigiiaamik periaaseqarneq (tedium) · pt monotonia (property of mathematical function) · eo monotoneco (tedium) · bg монотонност (tedium) · cs monotónnost (tedium) · bg еднообразие (tedium) · ga liostacht (tedium) · ga leadrán (tedium) · da monotoni (tedium)