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| Main Entry: | monotony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boredom; sameness |
| Synonyms: | continuance, continuity, dryness, dullness, ennui, evenness, humdrum*, likeness, oneness, routine, similarity, tediousness, tedium, uniformity, colorlessness, dreariness, equability, flatness, identicalness, invariability, levelness, monotone, monotonousness, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, same old thing, tiresomeness, unchangeableness, wearisomeness |
| Antonyms: | change, color, excitement, liveliness, versatility, variability |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | boredom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disinterest; weariness |
| Synonyms: | apathy, detachment, disgust, distaste, doldrums, dullness, ennui, fatigue, indifference, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, monotony, sameness, tediousness, tedium, unconcern, yawn, flatness, incuriosity, irksomeness, jadedness, lack of interest, pococurantism, taedium vitae, tiresomeness, world-weariness |
| Antonyms: | excitement, interest, pleasure |
| Main Entry: | platitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dull, overused saying |
| Synonyms: | banality, bromide*, buzzword, cliché, commonplace, evenness, inanity, monotony, motto, proverb, shibboleth, stereotype, tag*, truism, verbiage, boiler plate, chestnut*, corn*, familiar tune, flatness, hackneyed saying, high camp, hokum, insipidity, old chestnut, old story, potboiler, prosaicism, saw, trite remark, triteness, triviality, vapidity |
| Antonyms: | coinage, nuance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sameness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | likeness, similarity |
| Synonyms: | analogy, equality, identity, monotony, oneness, par, parity, repetition, resemblance, standardization, tedium, uniformity, unison, unity, adequation, alikeness, equivalency, identicalness, indistinguishability, no difference, predictability, selfsameness, unvariedness |
| Antonyms: | difference, dissimilarity, variety, variableness |
| Main Entry: | simplicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absence of complication, |
| Synonyms: | candor, chastity, clarity, clearness, ease, easiness, homogeneity, innocence, integrity, modesty, monotony, naiveté, purity, restraint, severity, uniformity, unity, classicality, clean lines, directness, elementariness, guilelessness, ingenuousness, lack of adornment, naturalness, obviousness, openness, plainness, primitiveness, singleness, sophistication artlessness, straightforwardness |
| Antonyms: | complexity, complication, difficulty, difficultness |
| Main Entry: | iteration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | redundancy |
| Synonyms: | emphasis, monotony, repetition |
| Main Entry: | tediousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tedium |
| Synonyms: | boredom, dryness, dullness, monotony, sameness, tiresomeness |
| Main Entry: | meagerness |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | dullness |
| Synonyms: | boredom, monotony, sameness, tedium, flatness |
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