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monologies

monologies is the plural of monology.

Meaning of monology

Noun

monology (countable and uncountable, plural monologies)

  1. The act of habit of soliloquizing, or of dominating conversation.
    • 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.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
  2. (countable, rare) A work consisting of a single part (as opposed to a dilogy, trilogy, etc.)

Questions about monologies

What is monologies the plural of?
Monologies is the plural of monology.

Words near monologies in the dictionary

  1. monologian
  2. monologians
  3. monologic
  4. monological
  5. monologically
  6. monologies
  7. monologing
  8. monologise
  9. monologised
  10. monologises
  11. monologising

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