interior monologue

noun

: a usually extended representation in monologue of a fictional character's thought and feeling

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Without the interior monologues that soften readers’ impressions of the characters in Hilderbrand’s book, each of the members of the Winbury family comes across as an unrepentant narcissist who seems potentially capable of resorting to nasty behavior. —

Jen Chaney, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2024 Look Who’s Talking, in which Bruce Willis voices the interior monologue of a wisecracking baby. —

Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024 The relentlessly polyphonic interior monologue makes for a frenetic, hilarious 100 minutes. —

Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024 Voilà, our cruel world is improved by the materialization of Ice Spice, a 24-year-old from the Bronx who raps with vivid nonchalance, delivering a rhyming interior monologue that everyone can suddenly hear, communicating broadly but with telepathic intimacy. —

Chris Richards, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for interior monologue

Word History

First Known Use

1922, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of interior monologue was in 1922

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“Interior monologue.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interior%20monologue. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.

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