Adjective : the monotonous flat scenery. From Dictionary.com.
Yet A Drifting Life is far from dull or monotonousness. From Wordnik.com. [Robot reviews: A Drifting Life | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference
He wears his monotonousness, his yawning lack of charisma, like some great coat of arms. From Wordnik.com. [Amid a sea of political tell-alls, Gordon Brown produces a typically wonky memoir] Reference
My task at this level is to encourage students to understand that the poem's surface itself -- with all its false starts, undeveloped or contradicted hypotheses, vague or confusing historical or mythological references, unanswered questions, abrupt transitions, rhetorical unevenness, expressive banality and grandeur, sonic brilliance and monotonousness, and architectonic promise and disappointment -- is not a code for but an embodiment of what the poem "means.". From Wordnik.com. [Three or Four Ways of Looking at an Urn] Reference
Monstrous monotonousness has enfolded us as with the arms of. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
I will not tell you how we sought to vary the monotonousness of imprisonment. From Wordnik.com. [The Wouldbegoods] Reference
Without any objective change whatever, variety had taken the place of monotonousness. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
And no variety, no division of time, no hour, no sun or night disturbed or changed this melancholy monotonousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck] Reference
What he revealed was not the cause of her sickness: women can bear revelations -- they are exciting: but the monotonousness. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
There is a profound monotonousness about its facts that baffles and defeats one's sincerest efforts to make them sparkle and enthuse. From Wordnik.com. [A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 5.] Reference
Because he sang it, she liked its inanity and monotonousness; and most of all, it seemed to her, she loved his hopeless and adorable flatting of every note. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
By and by came the winter and the deep snows; and even then, unwilling to give up his habitual place of exercise, the monotonousness of which promoted his wish to keep before his mind one subject of thought, Septimius. From Wordnik.com. [Septimius Felton, or, The elixir of life] Reference
Now you take a condition which is present all the time, and the results of that condition will be uniform; this uniformity of result will in time become monotonous; monotonousness, by the law of its being, is fatiguing. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1] Reference
The gentle waves were just a stronger grey than the sky, perforce of an interfusion that shifted gradations; they were silken, in places oily grey; cold to drive the sight across their playful monotonousness for refuge on any far fisher-sail. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
By and by came the winter and the deep snows; and even then, unwilling to give up his habitual place of exercise, the monotonousness of which promoted his wish to keep before his mind one subject of thought, Septimius wore a path through the snow, and still walked there. From Wordnik.com. [Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life] Reference
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