monotony
noun
1 monotony
The quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety:
— He had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work.
synonyms: humdrum, sameness.
Roget 13:
identity,
sameness;
coincidence,
coalescence;
convertibility;
equality
etc.
27;
selfness†,
self,
oneself;
identification.
monotony,
tautology
etc.
(repetition)
104.
facsimile
etc.
(copy)
21;
homoousia: alter ego
etc.
(similar)
17;
ipsissima verba [Lat.]
etc.
(exactness)
494;
same;
self,
very,
one and the same;
very thing,
actual thing;
real McCoy;
no other;
one and only;
in the flesh.
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Roget 16:
uniformity;
homogeneity,
homogeneousness;
consistency;
connaturality†,
connaturalness†;
homology;
accordance;
conformity
etc.
82;
agreement
etc.
23;
consonance,
uniformness.
regularity,
constancy,
even tenor,
routine;
monotony.
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Roget 27:
equality,
parity,
coextension†,
symmetry,
balance,
poise;
evenness,
monotony,
level.
equivalence;
equipollence†,
equipoise,
equilibrium,
equiponderance†;
par,
quits,
a wash;
not a pin to choose;
distinction without a difference,
six of one and half a dozen of the other;
tweedle dee and tweedle dum [Lat.];
identity
etc.
13;
similarity
etc.
17.
equalization,
equation;
equilibration,
co-ordination,
adjustment,
readjustment.
drawn game,
drawn battle;
neck and neck race;
tie,
draw,
standoff,
dead heat.
match,
peer,
compeer,
equal,
mate,
fellow,
brother;
equivalent.
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Roget 104:
repetition,
iteration,
reiteration,
harping,
recurrence,
succession,
run;
battology,
tautology;
monotony,
tautophony;
rhythm
etc.
138;
diffuseness,
pleonasm,
redundancy.
chimes,
repetend,
echo,
ritornello†,
burden of a song,
refrain;
rehearsal;
rechauffe [Fr.],
rifacimento [It],
recapitulation.
cuckoo
etc.
(imitation)
19;
reverberation
etc.
408;
drumming
etc.
(roll)
407;
renewal
etc.
(restoration)
660.
twice-told tale;
old story,
old song;
second edition,
new edition;
reappearance,
reproduction,
recursion [Comp.];
periodicity
etc.
138.
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Roget 841:
weariness,
defatigation†;
lassitude
etc.
(fatigue)
688;
drowsiness
etc.
683.
disgust,
nausea,
loathing,
sickness;
satiety
etc.
869;
taedium vitae
etc.
(dejection)
837;
boredom,
ennui.
wearisomeness,
tediousness
etc.
adj.;
dull work,
tedium,
monotony,
twice-told tale.
bore,
buttonholer,
proser†,
wet blanket;
pill [Slang],
stiff [Slang];
heavy hours,
the enemy"
(time).
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Dutch: eenheidsworst, eentonigheid, monotonie, uniformiteit
Polish: monotonność, monotonia, jednostajność
2 monotony
Constancy of tone or pitch or inflection.
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