monotony

1. 1.

   the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety

   “he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work”

   “he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners”

   “he hated the sameness of the food the college served”

   Synonymshumdrumsameness

   Broaderunvariedness
2. 2.

   constancy of tone or pitch or inflection

   Broaderconstancy

Other forms of monotony

plural

monotonies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about monotony

What does monotony mean?

monotony means "the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in monotony?

monotony has 4 syllables: mo-no-to-ny. The stress falls on "no". In IPA it is /məˈnɑtəni/.

What is another word for monotony?

Close synonyms include humdrum, sameness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is monotony a common word?

monotony is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.