English Explanatory Dictionary

stream of consciousness

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The continuous flow of thoughts that makes up an individual's conscious experience.
  2. A literary device that seeks to describe this process by means of a long, unstructured soliloquy.

Word forms

stream of consciousness streams of consciousness stream-of-consciousness

Synonyms

interior monologue

Related words

internal monologue train of thought
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