monotony

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /məˈnɑtəni/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məˈnɒtəni/

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• Hyphenation: mo‧not‧o‧ny

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:

     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.

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

• polytony

• monotone
• monotonous

• ontonomy