'Monotony' definitions:
Definition of 'monotony'
(from WordNet)
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" [syn: monotony, humdrum, sameness]
noun
Constancy of tone or pitch or inflection
Definition of 'Monotony'
From: GCIDE
- Monotony \Mo*not"o*ny\, n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. monotonie. See Monotonius.]
- 1. A frequent recurrence of the same tone or sound, producing a dull uniformity; absence of variety, as in speaking or singing. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Any irksome sameness, or want of variety. [1913 Webster]
- At sea, everything that breaks the monotony of the surrounding expanse attracts attention. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'monotony'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- AF,
- alliteration,
- assonance,
- audio frequency,
- boredom,
- broken record,
- ceaselessness,
- chime,
- clockwork regularity,
- consecutiveness,
- constancy,
- constant flow,
- continualness,
- continuity,
- continuousness,
- daily round,
- dingdong,
- drone,
- dryness,
- endlessness,
- ennui,
- equilibrium,
- even pace,
- even tenor,
- featurelessness,
- flatness,
- frequency,
- fullness,
- fundamental,
- fundamental tone,
- gaplessness,
- harmonic,
- harping,
- humdrum,
- incessancy,
- intonation,
- invariability,
- irk,
- irksomeness,
- jingle,
- jingle-jangle,
- jointlessness,
- monologue,
- monotone,
- monotonousness,
- near rhyme,
- orderliness,
- overtone,
- partial,
- partial tone,
- pitch,
- pitter-patter,
- plenitude,
- regularity,
- repeated sounds,
- repetitiousness,
- repetitiveness,
- rhyme,
- sameliness,
- sameness,
- seamlessness,
- singsong,
- slant rhyme,
- smoothness,
- stability,
- stale repetition,
- steadiness,
- steady state,
- successiveness,
- tedium,
- the beaten track,
- the daily round,
- the round,
- the squirrel cage,
- the treadmill,
- the weary round,
- tone,
- tonelessness,
- treadmill,
- trot,
- unbrokenness,
- undeviation,
- undifferentiation,
- uniformity,
- unintermittedness,
- uninterruptedness,
- uninterruption,
- unnecessary repetition,
- unrelievedness,
- unvariation,
- wearisome sameness