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MONOLOGY
Etymology
Noun
monology (countable and uncountable, plural monologies)
The habit of soliloquizing, or of monopolizing conversation.
(rare, countable) A work consisting of a single part (as opposed to a dilogy, trilogy, etc.)
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Source: Wiktionary
Mo*nol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr.
Definition: The habit of soliloquizing, or of monopolizing conversation. It was not by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life. De Quincey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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