different between onology vs monology

English

From Ancient Greek [Term?] (“an ass”) +? -logy.

onology

Ancient Greek mono- +? -logy

monology (countable and uncountable, plural monologies)

The habit of soliloquizing, or of monopolizing conversation.
- 1850, Thomas De Quincey, Conversation (published in Hogg's Instructor)
  It was not by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life.
- 1973, 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.
(rare, countable) A work consisting of a single part (as opposed to a dilogy, trilogy, etc.)

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