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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr. [GREEK].]

The habit of soliloquizing, or of monopolizing conversation.

It was not by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in

monology

through his whole life.

De Quincey.

monology ‎(countable and uncountable, plural monologies)

The habit of soliloquizing, or of monopolizing conversation.
- De Quincey
  It was not by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life.
- Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
  Miriam would only speed up in her speech when she 'forgot' the presence of others, when she was, as it were, enveloped in monology.