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Monotony vs Monotonicity - What's the difference?

monotony | monotonicity |

As nouns the difference between monotony and monotonicity

is that monotony is tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety while monotonicity is the state of being monotonic.

monotony

English

Noun

(monotonies)
  • Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.
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    • , 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

    monotonicity

    English

    Noun

  • (mathematics, physics) The state of being monotonic.
  • (analysis) Said of a positive measure: the property of a positive measure of a measure space, that given two measurable sets where the first set is contained in the second one, then the measure of the first set must be less than or equal to the measure of the second set.