monotony

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   I never grew accustomed to the monotony of my work, so I left the job.

2. 2
   noun

   Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.

   It matters little to trace the rapidity of the land journey, or the monotony of the sea voyage—alike unmarked by adventure. Robert Evelyn landed at Southampton,...

3. 3
   noun

   constancy of tone or pitch or inflection

4. 4
   noun

   The property of a monotonic function.

5. 5
   noun

   The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch.

Etymology

From French monotonie, from Late Latin monotonia, from Ancient Greek μονοτονία (monotonía, “sameness of tone, monotony”).