Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being monotonous; monotony; irksome or dreary sameness.
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- noun The property of being
monotonous .
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Examples
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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.
CHAPTER VII 2010
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Yet A Drifting Life is far from dull or monotonousness.
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He wears his monotonousness, his yawning lack of charisma, like some great coat of arms.
The gift of drab Manuel Roig-Franzia 2010
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He wears his monotonousness, his yawning lack of charisma, like some great coat of arms.
Amid a sea of political tell-alls, Gordon Brown produces a typically wonky memoir Manuel Roig-Franzia 2010
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My task at this level is to encourage students to understand that the poem's surface itself -- with all its false starts, undeveloped or contradicted hypotheses, vague or confusing historical or mythological references, unanswered questions, abrupt transitions, rhetorical unevenness, expressive banality and grandeur, sonic brilliance and monotonousness, and architectonic promise and disappointment -- is not a code for but an embodiment of what the poem "means."
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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.
Chapter 7 1913
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I will not tell you how we sought to vary the monotonousness of imprisonment.
The Wouldbegoods Edith 1901
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Without any objective change whatever, variety had taken the place of monotonousness.
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I will not tell you how we sought to vary the monotonousness of imprisonment.
The Wouldbegoods 1891
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There is a profound monotonousness about its facts that baffles and defeats one's sincerest efforts to make them sparkle and enthuse.
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word monotonousness
Spell this aloud, and discover the meaning!
July 19, 2009