Monotony

Noun

 * 1) tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety
 * 2)  the property of a monotonic function
 * 1)  the property of a monotonic function

Derived terms

 * monotone
 * monotonous

Adjectives for Monotony
apparent; routine; unused; extreme; inescapable; desolate; endless; gray; maddening; studious; unvarying; fatiguing; deadening; dull; machine-like; unnatural; exasperating; inevitable; tedious; slumberous; loathsome; lazy; painful; hideous; dreary; dreadful; tiresome; wearisome; smooth; objectless.

Verbs for Monotony
allay—; beguile—; bewail—; curse—; de¬plore—; distract—; emerge from—; endure —; extinguish—; inflict with—; intensify—; object to—; overcome with—; relieve—; repose in—; sink into—; usher in—; while away—; yawn through—; —abates; — bores; —depresses; —drags; —threatens; —tires; —wearies.

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

Etymology
From the post-Classical monotonia: and its etymon the Koine Greek μονοτονία:; compare the  monotonie: and the  monotonia:, as well as the later  monotone:.

Translations

 * Danish: monotoni
 * German: Eintönigkeit,


 * Greenlandic: assigiiaamik periaaseqarneq


 * German: Monotonie


 * : monotonía
 * : monotonía