interest vs monotony

interest

noun
  • A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity. 

  • An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor. 

  • The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed. 

  • Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance. 

  • Any excess over and above an exact equivalent 

  • The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively. 

  • Something or someone one is interested in. 

  • Attention that is given to or received from someone or something. 

verb
  • To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing. 

monotony

noun
  • Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety. 

  • The property of a monotonic function. 

  • The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch. 

How often have the words interest and monotony occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )