Polemic vs Monologue - What's the difference?
polemic | monologue |
A person who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant.
An argument or controversy.
(senseid)A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.
(drama) A type of art that consist of soliloquy, a long speech by one person.
(comedy) A long series of comic stories and jokes as an entertainment.
A long, uninterrupted utterance that monopolizes a conversation.
To deliver a monologue.
* (Oliver Sacks), Seeing Voices
As a noun polemic
is a person who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant.As an adjective polemic
is having the characteristics of a polemic.As a verb monologue is
.polemic
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Alternative forms
* polemick (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (person) controversialist, disputant * (strong verbal or written attack) harangue, screed, rant, tiradeDerived terms
* polemical * polemicistSynonyms
* polemicalExternal links
* *Anagrams
*monologue
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Alternative forms
* monolog (qualifier)Noun
(wikipedia monologue) (en noun)Synonyms
* (drama) soliloquyAntonyms
* (a monopolizing utterance) dialogueSee also
* soliloquyVerb
(monologu)- Powerful parents, in her formulation, feeling themselves autonomous and powerful, give autonomy and power to their children; powerless ones, feeling themselves passive and controlled, in turn exert an excessive control on their children, and monologue at them, instead of having a dialogue with them.