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Noun: stream of consciousness
  1. A literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy
    "Joyce's Ulysses is famous for its use of stream of consciousness"
     
  2. The continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience
    "The novel was written in a stream of consciousness style, reflecting the character's inner thoughts"

Type of: consciousness, prose

Encyclopedia: Stream of consciousness