Monology

//məˈnɒləd͡ʒi// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of habit of soliloquizing, or of dominating conversation. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    A work consisting of a single part (as opposed to a dilogy, trilogy, etc.) countable, rare

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"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."

Etymology

From mono- + -logy.

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