Usually means: Repetition without change; dull uniformity.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. monotony: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. monotony: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. monotony: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. monotony: Collins English Dictionary
  5. monotony: Vocabulary.com
  6. Monotony, monotony: Wordnik
  7. monotony: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. monotony: Wiktionary
  9. monotony: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. monotony: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. monotony: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Monotony, monotony: Dictionary.com
  13. monotony: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. monotony: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Monotony: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Monotony: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. monotony: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. monotony: Rhymezone
  19. monotony: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. monotony: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. monotony: Free Dictionary
  22. monotony: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. monotony: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. monotony: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. monotony: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. monotony: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. monotony: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.
noun:  (mathematics) The property of a monotonic function.
noun:  The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch.

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