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

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  1. monotony: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  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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American English Definition British English Definition
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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