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English
Etymology
From mono- + -logy.
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Noun
monology (countable and uncountable, plural monologies)
- 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.
- (rare, countable) A work consisting of a single part (as opposed to a dilogy, trilogy, etc.)
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