A person's silent discussion with themselves is called "inner monologue".
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Monologue
//ˈmɒnəlɒɡ//
Synonyms for "monologue" (124 found)
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85 translations across 50 languages.
Afrikaans
3 entries- alleenspraak noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- monoloog noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- monoloog noun (monopolizing utterance)
Albanian
1 entries- monolog noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Arabic
2 entries- حَدِيث النَّفْس noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- مُونُولُوج noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Armenian
2 entries- մենախոսություն noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- մոնոլոգ noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Bashkir
1 entries- монолог noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Belarusian
2 entries- манало́г noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- маналёг noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Bulgarian
3 entries- моноло́г noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- монолог noun (monopolizing utterance)
- водя монолог verb (Translations)
Catalan
2 entries- monòleg noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- monòleg noun (monopolizing utterance)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 獨白 /独白 noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Czech
1 entries- monolog noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Danish
1 entries- monolog noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Dutch
2 entries- alleenspraak noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- monoloog noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Estonian
1 entries- monoloog noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Finnish
4 entries- monologi noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- monologi noun (comedy: long series of stories and jokes)
- monologi noun (monopolizing utterance)
- yksinpuhelu noun (drama: long speech by one person)
French
1 entries- monologue noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Galician
1 entries- monólogo noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Georgian
1 entries- მონოლოგი noun (drama: long speech by one person)
German
2 entries- Monolog noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- Selbstgespräch noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Greek
1 entries- μονόλογος noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Hebrew
1 entries- מוֹנוֹלוֹג noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Hindi
2 entries- आत्मभाषण noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- एकालाप noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Hungarian
1 entries- monológ noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Indonesian
4 entries- komika noun (comedy: long series of stories and jokes)
- monolog noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- monolog noun (comedy: long series of stories and jokes)
- swacakap noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Italian
1 entries- monologo noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Japanese
4 entries- モノローグ noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- 漫談 noun (comedy: long series of stories and jokes)
- 独白 noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- 独話 noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Kazakh
1 entries- монолог noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Korean
2 entries- 독백 noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- 모놀로그 noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- монолог noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Latvian
1 entries- monologs noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Lithuanian
1 entries- monologas noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Macedonian
1 entries- монолог noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Māori
3 entries- kupu whaiaroaro noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- kupu whaiaroaro noun (monopolizing utterance)
- whaikī tōtahi noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- monolog noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- monolog noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Persian
2 entries- تکگویی noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- مونولوگ noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Polish
3 entries- monolog noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- monolog noun (comedy: long series of stories and jokes)
- monolog noun (monopolizing utterance)
Portuguese
3 entries- monólogo noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- monólogo noun (comedy: long series of stories and jokes)
- monólogo noun (monopolizing utterance)
Romanian
1 entries- monolog noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Russian
2 entries- моноло́г noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- моноло́г noun (comedy: long series of stories and jokes)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- monòlog noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- моно̀лог noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Slovak
1 entries- monológ noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Slovene
2 entries- monolog noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- samogovor noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Spanish
2 entries- monólogo noun (drama: long speech by one person)
- monologar verb (Translations)
Swedish
1 entries- monolog noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Tagalog
1 entries- sariusap noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Thai
1 entries- บทพูดเดี่ยว noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Turkish
1 entries- monolog noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Ukrainian
1 entries- моноло́г noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Vietnamese
1 entries- độc ngữ noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Yiddish
1 entries- מאָנאָלאָג noun (drama: long speech by one person)
Sample sentences
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I'm working on my monologue.
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Hearing those same events be made into a punchline for the monologue on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ makes them seem less dire.
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Don't heckle during the show. It's a monologue, not a dialogue.
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