stream of consciousness

1. 1.

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

   Broaderprose
2. 2.

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

   Broaderconsciousness

Questions about stream of consciousness

What does stream of consciousness mean?

stream of consciousness means "a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is stream of consciousness a common word?

stream of consciousness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.