monotonousness

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She sounded like Tennyson's 'Brook,' with a 'Men may come and men may go, but I go on for ever' monotonousness that was as depressing as it was incessant.

From God's Good Man by Corelli, Marie

And no variety, no division of time, no hour, no sun or night disturbed or changed this melancholy monotonousness.

From The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck by Tieck, Ludwig

Monstrous monotonousness has enfolded us as with the arms of Amphitrite!

From The Egoist by Meredith, George

Without any objective change whatever, variety had taken the place of monotonousness.

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Hardy, Thomas

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 The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack