Monotonie
See also: monotonie
German
editEtymology
editmonoton (“montonous”) + -ie (abstract noun suffix).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editMonotonie f (genitive Monotonie, plural Monotonien)
- monotony, tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety
- Synonym: Eintönigkeit
- Antonyms: Vielfalt, Abwechslung
- (mathematics, logic) monotonicity, the property of a monotonic operator
- Synonym: Monotonizität Antonyms: Nichtmonotonie, Nichtmonotonizität
Further reading
edit- “Monotonie” in Duden online
- “Monotonie” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Monotonie” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- Friedrich Kluge (2002) “monoton”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 24th edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN