(n.) A frequent recurrence of the same tone or sound, producing a dull uniformity; absence of variety, as in speaking or singing.
(n.) Any irksome sameness, or want of variety.
Example Sentences:
(1) Platelet MAO activity is associated with certain personality traits, with low activity linked to traits such as impulsiveness, sensation-seeking and avoidance of monotony, all possible expressions of low central serotonergic activity.
(2) Recreational runners frequently vary their training to avoid monotony and improve endurance capacity.
(3) The monotony factor was responsible for typical changes in sleep function (difficulty involved in falling asleep, disturbed continuity of sleep as a process, decline in the depth, etc.
(4) In a US largely characterised by suburban monotony, these are assets that could help regenerate Baltimore back to its extraordinary potential.
(5) The evaluation of the occupational monotony and stress points out to certain age differences.
(6) Equal rights to monotony, monogamy and vol-au-vents is just not my idea of modernisation or equality, because marriage is not an institution based on equality.
(7) Infralow oscillations were studied of psychophysiological parameters appearing at one-minute wave range at different levels of human operator's nervous system in conditions of monotony.
(8) Companies promise a trip like no other, with buggy tours lasting two days and one evening, 'long enough,' one brochure states, 'for nature enthusiasts to keep their excitement, but not too long to the point of monotony.'
(9) It provides handcontrolled fundamental frequency which enables the user to approximate natural intonation patterns, thus overcoming the monotony of speech with conventional aids.
(10) They will also have decreasing attention to current activities and usually avoid or lose interest in structured or repetitive activities (complaining of boredom and monotony).
(11) The following main characteristics of the motor activity are indicated as risk factors of the occupational diseases--number of movements per a working shift, their velocity and duration, movements needing strength and movements with a big volume, pronounced motor monotony.
(12) Monaco Grand Prix: F1 – as it happened | Michael Butler Read more It looked like yet another Monotony Grand Prix as Hamilton sprinted away from his pole position to build up what looked like an impregnable advantage.
(13) Twelve truck drivers operated the train function safety circuit (SIFA), a paced secondary task used as a job monitor on German railways engines, under laboratory conditions of extreme monotony, in a comparison with 12 train drivers who were well acquainted with SIFA.
(14) Polymorphic forms of the DNA duplex with long stretches of structural monotony are known.
(15) Quantitative analysis of speech production and the language examination when the disorder was at its worst and after recovery allowed the documentation of the slowing and monotony of speech, in the absence of aphasic disturbance in comprehension and expression.
(16) It was not just that critics deplored the concept, the stagecraft and O'Toole's own playing (monotony was frequently mentioned).
(17) Unpleasant circumstances such as an offensive environment, the monotony of work, poor qualifications or unsatisfactory work generally influence the persistence of pain.
(18) The monotony and the bulkiness of the traditional diet, the often sparse number of meals as well as periodic deteriorations of the food situation ("hungry season") all contributes to make the nutritional situation precarious.
(19) Many fundamental processes such as the role of conditioning in the development of satiety, and the effects of monotony and variety, have important implications for the treatment of obesity which have yet to be explored.
(20) Nadya's evolution over the three months after our visit to the penal colony, when she claimed to wish only for monotony, went something like this: she tried to reconcile herself to the life of the inmate as putty, to dream only of living to see the end of her term.
Sameness
Definition:
(n.) The state of being the same; identity; absence of difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as, a sameness of person, of manner, of sound, of appearance, and the like.
(n.) Hence, want of variety; tedious monotony.
Example Sentences:
(1) Except for the blue guard towers it is drained of colour, a grey sameness coating gravel, fences and buildings.
(2) Specific findings included the retrieval of sameness, fronting (or place), and voicing.
(3) These disturbances of development range from excessive temper tantrums, with defiant and oppositional behavior, to mannerisms, the insistence on sameness and frank autistic symptoms.
(4) Societies move forward not through sameness and repetition, but thanks to differences of opinion and intellectual diversity.
(5) He recalls: “Some weeks ago, I was listening to the debate and I was listening to Liz, Yvette and Andy and I kind of reached for the nearest sharpest object so I could slit my wrists because of the blandness and sameness of what they were saying.” There has also been an organised side to the campaign masterminded by the level-headed Simon Fletcher, chief of staff to Ken Livingstone as London mayor.
(6) Infantile sexuality, the pleasure of the total body, is equivalent to love and dependent upon sameness and continuity, tending toward fusion.
(7) It may be possible to teach reasoning strategies to subjects with poor reasoning, including many subjects with learning disabilities (LD), using curriculum designed around a sameness analysis.
(8) It was hypothesized that autistic children from high SES families would be associated with seven social class selection factors: (1) early age of onset, (2) early age of treatment admission, (3) normal cognitive potential, (4) complex rituals with maintenance of sameness, (5) long distance traveled for treatment, (6) limited availability of services, and (7) very detailed child history.
(9) That is, in at least some instances, one condition may have been mistaken for the other, and thus a factitious overlap or "sameness" misconstrued.
(10) Foster struggled to recover from that error and looked vulnerable on a couple of occasions in the second half, when he made unconvincing saves to deny Samed Yesil and the enterprising Daniel Pacheco, who also hit the bar with a delightful curling shot.
(11) When a white person says they don’t see race, that’s racist: sameness is an erasure when stark numbers – like the disproportionate police killings of black people – show that we don’t all exist in the world with equal safeguards and privileges.
(12) I never understood, until things changed, that “home” was something my parents actively built around me, all the time – a construction, a collection of comforting samenesses, a privilege.
(13) Neither biotyping nor antimicrobial susceptibility were successful in identifying sameness among the group isolates nor differences among other isolates.
(14) It was observed that contrary to the previously held assumption of "neuromuscular sameness," schizophrenics displayed a qualitatively different pattern of muscle activity in their motor responding.
(15) Sameness analysis is used to indicate the theoretical potential of each approach for helping students with learning disabilities to achieve generalization in their spelling.
(16) Normcore moves away from a coolness that relies on difference to a post-authenticity that opts into sameness.” It sounds like a joke but, says Sanderson, it might actually might be a thing: “It’s the opposite of what people think is hip now, but it’s also very masculine – which ties in to the return to blokeiness.” But for many, including Josh, the desire to categorise people is infuriating.
(17) These include onset of the disorder in the early preschool years, severe and pervasive deficits in social behavior and attachments, deficits in speech and language, insistence for the preservation of sameness, unusual responsiveness to the sensory environment, self-stimulation, self-injurious behavior, isolated skill areas, and inappropriate affect.
(18) Central to these models is a stimulus comparison process that derives relative judgments of sameness and difference from tests of the congruence of stimulus representations.
(19) Combined with frantic attempts at individuality is a profound sameness.
(20) It is argued that insistence on sameness, avoidance of social stimuli and self-injurious stereotypies of autistic children are neurotic reactions based on their insufficient object relations.