repetitiousness
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8.1
- noun
- /ˌrɛpɪˈtɪʃəsnəs/
- The repetitiousness of the training drills contributed to the team's lack of enthusiasm.
Examples
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The narrow range of these binaries—their repetitiousness and predictability—produces the kind of mechanistic accounts of the sexual act typical of pornographic texts.
Academic text (1996) -
The repetitiousness of his speech made it difficult for the audience to stay engaged.
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Her writing was marked by a certain repetitiousness that made the essay tedious to read.
Synonyms
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2.0
Doing or saying something again
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5.2
Unnecessary repetition that makes speech or writing longer
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4.9
An action of saying or doing the same thing again to make it clear and show its importance
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4.8
Repeated use of the same words or actions that makes something boring
Antonyms
How Repetitious
Surface Forms
Morphology
repetitiousness = repetitious (transparent) = repeat + ious + ness
Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'repetitious', yielding the quality of being repetitious; the derivation is regular and clear to learners.
Etymology
Repetitiousness comes from the familiar verb repeat, with the prefix re- meaning 'again' and the ending -ness showing a 'quality'. So repetitiousness is the quality of doing or saying the same thing again and again, which is why it often feels boring or makes speech hard to follow.