(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.
Variety
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.
(n.) That which is various.
(n.) A number or collection of different things; a varied assortment; as, a variety of cottons and silks.
(n.) Something varying or differing from others of the same general kind; one of a number of things that are akin; a sort; as, varieties of wood, land, rocks, etc.
(n.) An individual, or group of individuals, of a species differing from the rest in some one or more of the characteristics typical of the species, and capable either of perpetuating itself for a period, or of being perpetuated by artificial means; hence, a subdivision, or peculiar form, of a species.
(n.) In inorganic nature, one of those forms in which a species may occur, which differ in minor characteristics of structure, color, purity of composition, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
(2) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(3) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
(4) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
(5) The E. coli used did not possess collagenolytic activity nor did a variety of common aerobic clinical isolates.
(6) The effects of H1 and H2 antihistamines on a variety of physiological vasodilator responses were examined.
(7) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(8) We have examined the in vitro membrane assembly characteristics of a variety of leader peptidase mutants and found that domains required for insertion in vivo are also necessary for insertion in vitro.
(9) A variety of nonspecific inhibitors produce approximately the same inhibition of both activities.
(10) A variety of homobifunctional crosslinking agents have been used to gain insight into the nature of the murine interleukin 3 (mIL-3) receptor.
(11) It was possible to classify the bacteriophages broadly, according to the variety of mutants that were resistant to them.
(12) Although a variety of new teaching strategies and materials are available in education today, medical education has been slow to move away from the traditional lecture format.
(13) A variety of weak acids at and below their pK(a) are potent inhibitors of transport in Penicillium chrysogenum.
(14) Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville, Tennessee-based Hummingbird Productions, told trade publication Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter in the original film.
(15) Production of glucose was a linear function of time for up to 120 min of incubation at 37 degrees C under a variety of conditions.
(16) Cytochrome P-450 is known to catalyze the following oxygen transfer reaction: RH + PhIO----ROH + PhI where RH represents a variety of hydroxylatable substrates and PhIO a variety of iodosobenzene derivatives that serve as oxygen donors, and neither molecular oxygen nor an external electron donor is required.
(17) Using this technique, genes were transferred into a variety of developing mouse tissues with high efficiency.
(18) Prior exposure and subsequent reactions can, however, take a wide variety of forms, and blanket avoidance may prevent many deserving patients from being transplanted.
(19) Utilizing the bilateral comparison technique in 30 hospitalized patients with chronic stable plaque-type psoriasis vulgaris, we closely monitored the clinical responses to ultraviolet radiation (Westinghouse fluorescent FS40 bulbs, 290--400 nm) and a variety of tar preparations and lubricant vehicles in combination and separately.
(20) A prospective, double-blind study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of oral dexamethasone premedication in reducing a variety of side effects associated with metrizamide myelography.