Monotony vs Tedious - What's the difference?
monotony | tedious |
Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.
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(mathematics) The property of a monotonic function.
The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch.
Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
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As a noun monotony
is tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.As an adjective tedious is
boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.monotony
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Noun
(monotonies)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.}}
Derived terms
* monotone * monotonoustedious
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=A work is objectively tedious' when it contains the defect in question; that is to say, when its author has no perfectly clear thought or knowledge to communicate. For if a man has any clear thought or knowledge in him, his aim will be to communicate it, and he will direct his energies to this end; so that the ideas he furnishes are everywhere clearly expressed. The result is that he is neither diffuse, nor unmeaning, nor confused, and consequently not ' tedious .}}
citation, passage=The other kind of tediousness is only relative: a reader may find a work dull because he has no interest in the question treated of in it, and this means that his intellect is restricted. The best work may, therefore, be tedious' subjectively, ' tedious .}}