soliloquy

Universal Words noun [C,U] (plural soliloquies) a speech in a play in a which a character, who is alone on the stage, speaks his or her thoughts aloud; the act of speaking thoughts aloud in this way: Hamlet's famous soliloquy, 'To be or not to be...' * the playwright's use of soliloquy compareMONOLOGUE soliloquize, soliloquise verb [V]