internal monologue

English

Noun

internal monologue (plural internal monologues)

1. A person's "inner voice" which provides a running verbal monologue of what they are thinking, important in planning, problem solving, self-reflection, etc.

   Synonym: self-talk

2. (literature) A representation of someone's thoughts as articulated. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

inner voice

• Danish: indre monolog c
• Finnish: sisäinen ääni, sisäinen puhe
• German: innerer Monolog, innere Stimme (de) f
• Malay: senandika
• Romanian: monolog intern n

literary device

• Finnish: sisäinen yksinpuhelu, sisäinen monologi
• German: innerer Monolog m
• Romanian: monolog intern n

See also

• anauralia (the absence of auditory imagery, particularly the lack of an "inner voice".)
• self-talk
• stream of consciousness