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Definition of Monotony
Monotony

A frequent recurrence of the same tone or sound, producing a dull uniformity; absence of variety, as in speaking or singing.

Any irksome sameness, or want of variety.

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Monotony Quotations

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Coco Chanel

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
Edith Wharton

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
Charlotte Bronte

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
Bela Lugosi

I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.
James Laughlin

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.
Ivor Novello

Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.
Ajay Devgan

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
Guillaume Apollinaire

Monotony Translations

monotony in French is monotonie
monotony in Italian is monotonia
monotony in Swedish is enformighet


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