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A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.
Italo Calvino

Meaning of "monotony" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MONOTONY

monotony  [məˈnɒtənɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MONOTONY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Monotony is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MONOTONY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Monotone

Monotone refers to a sound, for example speech or music, that has a single unvaried tone. See: monophony. Monotone or monotonicity may also refer to: In mathematics, ▪ Monotone class theorem, in measure theory ▪ Monotone convergence theorem, in mathematics ▪ Monotonic function, mathematical concept ▪ Monotone polygon, in geometry In other uses, ▪ Monotone ▪ Monotone, an open source revision control system ▪ Monotone preferences, in consumer economics ▪ Monotonicity criterion, a voting system criterion ▪ Monotonic orthography, simplified spelling of modern Greek ▪ Monotonicity of entailment, property of some logical systems ▪ The Monotones, American rock 'n' roll band...

Definition of monotony in the English dictionary

The definition of monotony in the dictionary is wearisome routine; dullness. Other definition of monotony is lack of variety in pitch or cadence.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MONOTONY


Anthony
ˈæntənɪ
Antony
ˈæntənɪ
archaeobotany
ˌɑːkɪəʊˈbɒtənɪ
archeobotany
ˌɑːkɪəʊˈbɒtənɪ
astrobotany
ˌæstrəʊˈbɒtənɪ
atony
ˈætənɪ
botany
ˈbɒtənɪ
Brittany
ˈbrɪtənɪ
cottony
ˈkɒtənɪ
ethnobotany
ˌɛθnəʊˈbɒtənɪ
geobotany
ˌdʒiːəʊˈbɒtənɪ
gluttony
ˈɡlʌtənɪ
homotony
hɒmˈɒtənɪ
litany
ˈlɪtənɪ
neoteny
nɪˈɒtənɪ
palaeobotany
ˌpælɪəʊˈbɒtənɪ
palaeoethnobotanist
ˌpælɪəʊˌeθnəʊˈbɒtənɪ
palaeoethnobotany
ˌpælɪəʊˌɛθnəʊˈbɒtənɪ
paleobotany
ˌpælɪəʊˈbɒtənɪ
tetany
ˈtɛtənɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MONOTONY

monotherapy
monotint
monotocous
monotone
monotonic
monotonically
monotonicity
monotonies
monotonise
monotonize
monotonous
monotonously
monotonousness
monotrematous
monotreme
monotrichic
monotrichous
monotroch
monotype
monotypic

WORDS THAT END LIKE MONOTONY

agony
balcony
brimstony
ceremony
colony
ebony
felony
harmony
irony
Mark Antony
muttony
pony
stony
symphony
syntony
tantony
telephony
testimony
tony
wood betony

Synonyms and antonyms of monotony in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MONOTONY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «monotony» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of monotony

Translation of «monotony» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MONOTONY

Find out the translation of monotony to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of monotony from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «monotony» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

单调
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

monotonía
570 millions of speakers

English

monotony
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

एकरसता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الرتابة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

однообразие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

monotonia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গতানুগতিকতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

monotonie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Monoton
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Monotonie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

単調さ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

단조 로움
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Monoton
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự không thay đổi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சலிப்பூட்டும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कंटाळवाणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

monotonluk
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

monotonia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

monotonia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

одноманітність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

monotonie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μονοτονία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

eentonigheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

monotoni
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Monoton
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of monotony

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MONOTONY»

The term «monotony» is regularly used and occupies the 59.756 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MONOTONY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about monotony

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10 QUOTES WITH «MONOTONY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word monotony.
1
Guillaume Apollinaire
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
2
Benjamin Britten
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
3
Charlotte Bronte
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
4
Italo Calvino
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.
5
Ajay Devgan
Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.
6
Freeman Dyson
Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.
7
Joshua Foer
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.
8
Dean Karnazes
When I was running across the country, I was doing 40 or 50 miles a day in sleeting snow with zero visibility for five or six days in a row. Ten to 12 hours of running in that is monotony beyond belief.
9
James Laughlin
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.
10
Bela Lugosi
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONOTONY»

Discover the use of monotony in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to monotony and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Logical Theory of Nonmonotonic Inference and Belief Change
Or If A\~Cand B\~C, then Av Rational Monotony If A |~ B and A \* -<C, then A A C | ~ B. It turns out that the framework of basic inference supports some strong and non-trivial connections among the above postulates. The following theorem ...
Alexander Bochman, 2001
2
The power of color: how it can reduce fatigue, relieve ...
Recounts the history of human responses to color, describes the biological and psychological effects of color, and considers how colors affect vision
Faber Birren, 1992
3
Labour welfare and industrial hygiene
important areas has already been initiated in early 1978 and reported to be going ahead satisfactorily. Monotony Although it is well observed that there was "no golden age in which routine and monotonous work were absent," there is, in fact,  ...
4
Rail Human Factors around the World: Impacts on and of ...
performance of train drivers and possible ways to mitigate these negative performance effects. Keywords: monotony, task complexity, fatigue, performance Introduction Monotony has been formally recognised as a problem in the workplace as ...
John R Wilson, Ann Mills, Theresa Clarke, 2012
5
Global Smoothness and Shape Preserving Interpolation by ...
on /) such that U (/) is nondecreasing on Vf(yo), then yo is called a point of weak preservation of partial monotony and, correspondingly, U is said to have the property of weak preservation of partial monotony (about yo). If the above ...
Sorin G. Gal, 2005
6
Organisational Behaviour
Rajul Dutt. Hence, monotony indicates the psychologically undesirable effect of repetitive work found in business organisations. For example, the impact of machine technology on workers, of ultimately making the men subserve the machines.
Rajul Dutt
7
The Russian Theory of Activity: Current Applications To ...
Monotony and vigilance are also characteristic of work. In this section, some aspects of this problem are considered from the activity point of view. Monotony, from anactivity point of view, is considered a functional state of an organism and is ...
Gregory Bedny, David Meister, 2014
8
On Art and Life
In the second case, he must bear patiently the infliction of the monotony for some moments, in order to feel the full refreshment of the change. This is true even of the shortest musical passage in which the element of monotony is employed.
John Ruskin, 2005
9
The sea-stories.-v. 3. The fall
and majesty in monotony which there is not in rapid or frequent variation. This is true throughout ail nature. The greater part of the sublimity of the sea depends on its monotony ; so also that of desolate moor and mountain scenery ; ana ...
John Ruskin, 1900
10
Unto This Last and Other Writings
In the second case, he must bear patiently the infliction of the monotony for some moments, in order to feel the full refreshment of the change. This is true even of the shortest musical passage. in which the element of monotony is employed.
John Ruskin, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MONOTONY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term monotony is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Jeremy Corbyn is the only candidate the public actually likes …
And I have to admit, that one was a welcome break from political monotony for a young pro-Corbyn Labourite like myself. It doesn't surprise me ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
2
So 'Mummy Dating' Is A Real Thing - And It's Not As Creepy As It …
... more often than Lady Gaga changes her outfit. More and more women are escaping the 9-5 monotony to create a career that lights them up. «Marie Claire.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
Societies failing youths worldwide
As Abdulazeez mentioned in one post, he felt that he was living in a prison of monotony and routine. This is one likely explanation why three ... «Arab News, Jul 15»
4
The Truth About Racism In The Music Industry
These days career change happens more often than Lady Gaga changes her outfit. More and more women are escaping the 9-5 monotony to ... «Marie Claire.co.uk, Jul 15»
5
Teen leaves school and follows passion for photography
Themes explored cover such diversity as the human search for inner peace within an urban landscape, the lone monotony of the day to day, ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»
6
Children Explain What They Think 'Adultery' Is In This HIGHlarious …
After the monotony of marriage puts out the flame of passion between a couple, the internet provides sleazy websites like Ashley Madison! «PerezHilton.com, Jul 15»
7
Still-detained author's memoir from Guantanamo a strange, searing …
In the essentials, Slahi gets right the way imprisonment and interrogation create their own reality of absurd monotony. In one of many pop ... «National Catholic Reporter, Jul 15»
8
Driving Australia's Most Challenging Off-Road Trail
... crocodiles, and jellyfish that are constantly trying to kill you in Cape York is the monotony of the little bit of Australian food you'll find along the ... «Gizmodo UK, Jul 15»
9
Pixels Review
We're supposed to learn (through video games) that pattern memorization can beat the monotony of repeating problems (Pac-Man), but ... «We Got This Covered, Jul 15»
10
A Literary Mixtape: On 'New American Stories'
At one point, about halfway through the story, he demonstrates the anguishing monotony of grief: I am in a hospital. My lungs burn. My heart ... «The Millions, Jul 15»

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