monology

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek mono- +‎ -logy

Noun

monology (countable and uncountable, plural monologies)

1. The habit of soliloquizing, or of monopolizing conversation.
   • (Can we date this quote by De Quincey and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     It was not by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life.

   • 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “monology”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• nomology