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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur.
  2. n. Psychology The conscious experience of an individual regarded as a continuous, flowing series of images and ideas running through the mind.

Wiktionary

  1. n. the continuous flow of thoughts that makes up an individual's conscious experience
  2. n. a literary device that seeks to describe this process by means of a long, unstructured soliloquy

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience
  2. n. a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy

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