A graph peoperty is monoton if every subgraph of a graph with property P, also has the property P. Same as bipartite graphs. every subgraph (Withot isolated vertices), of a bipartite graph is also bipartite.
Now, the meaning of "Monotonically should make no difference" is, for each of the graphs G in the class, if H is a subgraph of G, then H should have the same properties as G.
@Nazanin "A graph peoperty is monoton if every subgraph of a graph with property P, also has the property P" is called "hereditary property".
As for the original (part of a) sentence: if we join it to another domain of mathematics, it makes sense such as it is, despite imprecise wording: e.g. in a class of exponential functions with a basis a>1...