monology

plural monologies

1. countableuncountableThe act of habit of soliloquizing, or of dominating conversation.

   Miriam would only speed up in her speech when she 'forgot' the presence of others, when she was, as it were, enveloped in monology.

   1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

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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.

   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. countablerareA work consisting of a single part (as opposed to a dilogy, trilogy, etc.)