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Definition of "repetitiousness" []

  • The state of being repetitious. (noun)

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Use "repetitiousness" in a sentence
  • "The repetitiousness of sports writing mars some of the on-court passages: Markovits's descriptions of the game have neither Updike's erotic charge in Rabbit, Run nor the fuller-throated late-Beat rhythms of Bob Levin's neglected classic The Best Ride to New York."
  • "For while the New York Times was critical of its repetitiousness and verbosity, and critics like Bergen Evans—who would later achieve fame as the question supervisor on The $64,000 Question on TV—found the “cumbrousness of his supernatural machinery” hard going, there was praise for the moral intent of the book, and also for its lyricism and humor."
  • "If these failed to produce the results sought, interrogators escalated to waterboarding, as was done to Abu Zubaydah "at least 83 times during August 2002" and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad 183 times in March 2003 -- so many times, in fact, that the repetitiousness of the act can only be considered convincing testimony to the seductive sadism of CIA-style torture."