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monotony

noun
/məˈnɒtəni/UK/məˈnɑtəni/US/məˈnɒtəni/CA/məˈnɔtəni/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from μονοτονία — “sameness of tone, monotony”
  2. derived from monotonia
  3. derived from monotonie

Definitions

  1. Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.

    • 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,...
    • 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.
    • 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

  2. The property of a monotonic function.

  3. The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch.

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Derived

monotone, monotonist, monotonous

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at monotony. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at monotony. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at monotony

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA