monotony

nounboredom; sameness

Synonyms for monotony

noun boredom; sameness

Antonyms for monotony

Word Origin & History

1706, originally in transferred sense of "wearisome, tiresome," from French monotonie (1670s), from Greek monotonia "sameness of tone, monotony," from monotonos "monotonous, of one tone," from monos "single, alone" (see mono-) + tonos "tone" (see tenet). Literal sense of "sameness of tone or pitch" in English is from 1724.

Example Sentences for monotony

Poor chap, and he'd been talkin' to me about the monotony of married life.

The monotony of savage life in this place became intolerable.

But without variety, life has no spice, and monotony wearies the soul.

He was something to vary the monotony of the great solemn silence of our world.

I must thank you for this other interest in the monotony of life.

The monotony was almost never broken, and he began to find it deadly.

Again they had to endure the monotony of loneliness, but what else was to be done?

And doubtless some break in the monotony gives a fillip of pleasure.

I know all about the "dullness" and "monotony" of rural life, bad housing and the rest of it.

For three and a half miles, nothing broke the monotony of the trip.

monotony

Synonyms for monotony

Antonyms for monotony

identicalness

iteration

iterations

meagerness

platitude

monotony

Synonyms for monotony

Antonyms for monotony

More words related to monotony

boredom

identicalness

iteration

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meagerness

platitude