different between soliloquy vs soliloquizing

English

Etymology

1595–1605; From Late Latin s?liloquium in the title of St. Augustine's Soliloquiorum libri duo ("Two Books of Soliloquies"), from s?lus (“only, sole”) + loquor (“I speak”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?l?l??kw?, IPA^(key): /s??l?l?kwi/
• Hyphenation: so?lil?o?quy

Noun

soliloquy (countable and uncountable, plural soliloquies)

1. (drama) The act of a character speaking to themselves so as to reveal their thoughts to the audience.

   Coordinate term: aside
2. (authorship) A speech or written discourse in this form.

   Synonym: monologue

   Antonyms: colloquy, dialogue, dialog

Usage notes

Primarily used of theater, particularly the works of William Shakespeare, as a term of art, particularly for finely-crafted speeches. An archetype is the “To be, or not to be” soliloquy in Hamlet. In informal speech or discussions of popular culture, the term monologue is used instead. However, the terms are not precisely synonymous; a monologue is held in the presence and directed towards other characters on the stage, whereas a soliloquy does not acknowledge the presence of any other stage characters if present, and is directed to the audience.

Hypernyms

• locution
• oration

Derived terms

• soliloquist
• soliloquize

Related terms

• solo, solitude
• locution – see other terms on same loquor root

Translations

See also

• apostrophe
• stage whisper

Verb

soliloquy (third-person singular simple present soliloquies, present participle soliloquying or soliloquing, simple past and past participle soliloquied)

1. (very rare) To issue a soliloquy.

Synonyms

• soliloquize (much more common)

Further reading

• soliloquy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Verb

soliloquizing

1. present participle of soliloquize

Noun

soliloquizing (plural soliloquizings)

1. Something spoken in soliloquy.
   • 1821, The Retrospective Review (page 338)

     The play opens with the soliloquizings of D'Ambois himself, who, bearing about with him a pretty lively impression of his own merits, finds himself neglected by the court and plunged in poverty and distress.