repetitiousness

Tiresome recurring pattern

Repetitiousness is the quality of being repetitious—saying or doing the same thing over and over unnecessarily.

The word itself embodies its meaning, being a needlessly long way to say repetition: The repetitiousness of his arguments wore everyone down.

Unlike repetition, which can be neutral or deliberate, repetitiousness implies tedium or excess.

monotony

tedium

Wearisome dullness

dullness · ennui · weariness · drudgery · humdrum · stagnation · banality · insipidity · listlessness · droning

redundancy

tautology

Redundant or circular statement

prolixity · reiteration · restatement · duplication · overstatement · wordiness · rehashing · belaboring · harping · recycling

rhythm

cadence

Rhythmic pulse or pattern

  • beatRhythmic pulse or strike
  • pulseArterial blood throb
  • patternRecurring arrangement or template

meter · recurrence · regularity · periodicity · oscillation · drumming · tapping · cycling · pulsation · looping

Opposites
redundancy vs. economy of expression

repetitiousnessconciseness

Quality of being brief

terseness · brevity · succinctness · pithiness · economy

monotony vs. variety

repetitiousnessvariety

State of being diverse

diversity · novelty · freshness · originality · variation

Family

repeat, repeated, repeating, repetition, repetitive, repetitious, repeaters, repeatable, repetitiveness

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