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STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stream of consciousness mean? 

STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS has 2 senses:

1. a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquyplay

2. the continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experienceplay

  Familiarity information: STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("stream of consciousness" is a kind of...):

prose (ordinary writing as distinguished from verse)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("stream of consciousness" is a kind of...):

consciousness (an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation)


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