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Onology vs Monology - What's the difference?

onology | monology |

As nouns the difference between onology and monology

is that onology is foolish discourse while monology is the habit of soliloquizing]], or of [[monopolize|monopolizing conversation.

onology

English

Noun

  • foolish discourse
    • (Webster 1913)

    monology

    English

    Noun

  • The habit of soliloquizing]], or of [[monopolize, monopolizing conversation.
    • It was not by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life. — De Quincey.
  • * Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
    • Miriam would only speed up in her speech when she 'forgot' the presence of others, when she was, as it were, enveloped in monology .
    (Webster 1913)