stream of consciousness
noun
Simple meaning
The continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute a person's conscious experience.
Pronunciation
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IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈstɹiˈmʌvˈkɑnʃəsnəs
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Definition
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noun
The continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience
The continuous flow of thoughts that makes up an individual's conscious experience.
A literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy
A literary device that seeks to describe this process by means of a long, unstructured soliloquy.
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This meaning: The continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience
Used this way, stream of consciousness is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
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