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Dullness vs Monotony - What's the difference?

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Dullness is a related term of monotony.


As nouns the difference between dullness and monotony

is that dullness is the quality of being slow to understand things while monotony is tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.

dullness

English

Alternative forms

* dulness

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The quality of being slow to understand things.
  • The quality of being uninteresting.
  • The lack of visual brilliance.
  • (of an edge) bluntness.

    • monotony

    English

    Noun

    (monotonies)
  • Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= , author=Arthur Conan Doyle , title=Through the Magic Door , chapter=1 citation , passage=Yet second-hand romance and second-hand emotion are surely better than the dull, soul-killing monotony which life brings to most of the human race.}}
  • (mathematics) The property of a monotonic function.
  • The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch.

    • Derived terms

    * monotone * monotonous