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Ennui vs Monotony - What's the difference?

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Ennui is a related term of monotony.


As nouns the difference between ennui and monotony

is that ennui is a gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression while monotony is tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.

ennui

English

Noun

(-)
  • A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.

    • Synonyms

    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "ennui")

    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