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STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
Sense 2
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)
