monology

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Etymology

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From mono- +‎ -logy.

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monology (countable and uncountable, plural monologies)

  1. The act of habit of soliloquizing, or of dominating conversation.
    • 1860, Thomas De Quincey, “Conversation”, in Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected; and Other Papers (De Quincey’s Works; XIV), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 171:
      It was not, therefore, by an insolent usurpation that [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life, but in virtue of a concession from the kindness and respect of his friends.
    • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
      Miriam would only speed up in her speech when she 'forgot' the presence of others, when she was, as it were, enveloped in monology.
  2. (rare, countable) A work consisting of a single part (as opposed to a dilogy, trilogy, etc.)

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