monotonousness
Example Sentences
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Without any objective change whatever, variety had taken the place of monotonousness.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Because he sang it, she liked its inanity and monotonousness; and most of all, it seemed to her, she loved his hopeless and adorable flatting of every note.
From The Valley of the Moon by Jack London
And no variety, no division of time, no hour, no sun or night disturbed or changed this melancholy monotonousness.
From The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck by Ludwig Tieck
What he revealed was not the cause of her sickness: women can bear revelations—they are exciting: but the monotonousness.
From The Egoist by George Meredith
She sounded like Tennyson's 'Brook,' with a 'Men may come and men may go, but I go on for ever' monotonousness that was as depressing as it was incessant.
From God's Good Man by Marie Corelli
