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/strim əv kˈɑnʃəsnəs/ Listen

Stream of consciousness

noun

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

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

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"Stream of consciousness" Quotes from Famous Books

... view was given by the late Frederic Myers; he suggested that the stream of consciousness in which we habitually lived was not our only one. Possibly our habitual consciousness might be a mere selection from a multitude of thoughts and sensations—some, at least, equally conscious with those we empirically ...

— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various

... this view was given by the late Frederic Myers; he suggested that the stream of consciousness in which we habitually lived was not our only one. Possibly our habitual consciousness might be a mere selection from a multitude of thoughts and sensations—some, at least, equally conscious with those we empirically knew. No primacy ...

— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various

... analogy with 'typo'] A momentary, correctable glitch in mental processing, especially one involving recall of information learned by rote; a bubble in the stream of consciousness. Syn. {braino}; see also {brain fart}. ...

— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0