monotonicity
noun
monotonicity is spelled M-O-N-O-T-O-N-I-C-I-T-Y: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, monotonicity means “The state of being monotonic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of monotonicity is monotonicities.
How many letters and syllables are in monotonicity?
| Letters | 12: M-O-N-O-T-O-N-I-C-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 17 million words; the 122,704th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is monotonicity?
Monotonicity appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Forms of monotonicity
- monotonicities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does monotonicity mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The state of being monotonic.
- 2
Said of a positive measure: the property of a positive measure of a measure space, that given two measurable sets where the first set is contained in the second one, then the measure of the first set must be less than or equal to the measure of the second set.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Monotonicity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense mathematics, physics: the state of being monotonic:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does monotonicity come from?
From monotonic + -ity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).