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The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with... stream of consciousness, as it's called, for emotional reasons, and the main emotional reason is verisimilitude. I mean, this is what surprises people: Life is not in the simple past.
Will Self

Meaning of "stream of consciousness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

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Stream of consciousness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of stream of consciousness in the English dictionary

The definition of stream of consciousness in the dictionary is the continuous flow of ideas, thoughts, and feelings forming the content of an individual's consciousness. The term was originated by William James. Other definition of stream of consciousness is a literary technique that reveals the flow of thoughts and feelings of characters through long passages of soliloquy.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

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streamiest
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streaming
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streamlike
streamline
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WORDS THAT END LIKE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

biliousness
business
carelessness
consciousness
deliciousness
deviousness
flawlessness
helplessness
hilariousness
homelessness
hopelessness
lawlessness
nervousness
preciousness
restlessness
ridiculousness
righteousness
seriousness
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unconsciousness
viciousness

Synonyms and antonyms of stream of consciousness in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «stream of consciousness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Find out the translation of stream of consciousness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of stream of consciousness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «stream of consciousness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

意识流
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

corriente de conciencia
570 millions of speakers

English

stream of consciousness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चेतना की धारा
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

تيار الوعي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

поток сознания
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fluxo de consciência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চেতনা প্রবাহ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

flux de la conscience
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

aliran Kesedaran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Strom des Bewusstseins
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

意識の流れ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

의식의 흐름
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Aliran kesadaran
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dòng ý thức
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உணர்வு ஸ்ட்ரீம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चेतनेचा प्रवाह
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bilinç akışı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

flusso di coscienza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

strumień świadomości
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

потік свідомості
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

flux de conștiință
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ροή της συνείδησης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stroom van bewussyn
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

ström av medvetande
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

stream of consciousness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of stream of consciousness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about stream of consciousness

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5 QUOTES WITH «STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word stream of consciousness.
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Dan Harmon
There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.
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Garrett Hedlund
I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.
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Roland Joffe
I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time.
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Robert Lanza
Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.
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Will Self
The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with... stream of consciousness, as it's called, for emotional reasons, and the main emotional reason is verisimilitude. I mean, this is what surprises people: Life is not in the simple past.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS»

Discover the use of stream of consciousness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stream of consciousness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Stream of Consciousness: Unity and Continuity in Conscious ...
This is a result of a single primitive experiential relationship which he calls "co-consciousness," a relationship which holds between those experiences that are had together both a time and over time.
Barry Dainton, 2006
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Fording the stream of consciousness
Ironic, playful, and multilayered, winner of three major prizes for the best Yugoslav novel of 1988, this beguiling novel-about-a-novel is set at an international literary conference in Zagreb.
Dubravka Ugrešić, Michael Henry Heim, 1991
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William James on the Stream of Consciousness: All the Evidence
This book, a sequel to William James on Common Sense, expands his radical-empiricist, two-part model of the stream of consciousness to the one that allows for all three of its components: sensed phenomena, memory-images, and partless ...
Frederick Bauer, 2009
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Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting ...
This book investigates the entire spectrum of techniques for portraying the mental lives of fictional characters in both the stream-of-consciousness novel and other fiction.
Dorrit Cohn, 1983
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Consciousness Explained
In Consciousness Explained, Daniel C. Dennett reveals the secrets of one of the last remaining mysteries of the universe: the human brain.
Daniel C. Dennett, 1993
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The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates
Intended for anyone attempting to find their way through the large and confusingly interwoven literature on consciousness, this reader brings together most of the principal theoretical works in philosophy and neuropsychology on ...
Ned Joel Block, Owen J. Flanagan, Güven Güzeldere, 1997
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The Unity of Consciousness
In the second part of the volume this account is applied to a variety of syndromes--drawn from both normal and pathological forms of experience--in which the unity of consciousness is said to breakdown.
Tim Bayne, 2010
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Consciousness & Emotion: Agency, Conscious Choice, and ...
The Varieties of Religious Experience considered from the perspective of James's account of the stream of consciousness Thomas Natsoulas Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis William James produced a second major ...
Ralph D. Ellis, Natika Newton, 2005
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A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness
Bernard Baars suggests a way to specify empirical constraints on a theory of consciousness by contrasting well-established conscious phenomena with comparable unconscious ones, such as stimulus representations known to be preperceptual, ...
Bernard J. Baars, 1993
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Literature into Film: Theory and Practical Approaches
Stream of consciousness composition, which often, but does not always, employ impressionistic descriptions, also assembles words much as montage editing assembles film, through an association of images, ideas, and emotions rather than ...
Linda Costanzo Cahir, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term stream of consciousness is used in the context of the following news items.
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STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
I wanted to engage all of the senses, not just the visual. When you add things like aroma or sound — particularly music — it can be engaging and provide a ... «Folio Weekly, Jun 15»
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Damon Dash Responds To Jay Z's 'Stream Of Consciousness
Jay Z debuted his latest freestyle last weekend at the Tidal X: B-Sides show. In the freestyle called “Stream of Consciousness,” the business mogul defended his ... «Huffington Post, May 15»
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Jay Z Dropped A Video For His 'Stream of Consciousness' Freestyle
Along with reuniting with Beanie Sigel, Jay performed a stream of consciousness-esque freestyle, where he tackled the issues of music piracy and the deaths of ... «Vibe, May 15»
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Jay Z Drops Behind The Scenes “Stream Of Consciousness” Video
Over the weekend, Jay Z held a pair of B-Sides concerts that rewarded TIDAL users with a show stocked with some of his rarely performed, yet classic cuts and a ... «Hip-Hop Wired, May 15»
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Jay Z Throws Lyrical Jabs at YouTube and Spotify on 'Stream of
On Tuesday (May 19), Jay premiered the one-minute freestyle video called “Stream of Consciousness” on TIDAL. In the rap, the Brooklyn rhymer throws lyrical ... «The BoomBox, May 15»
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Jay Z Defends TIDAL In 'Stream Of Consciousness' Twitter Rant
After a dramatic fall out of the Top 700 iOS chart, Jay Z has defended his streaming service TIDAL in a rare Twitter rant. The star, who created TIDAL as an ... «MTV UK, Apr 15»
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Stream of consciousness: Focus on geese
Their nests are found on trout streams often in Wisconsin. The female bird will challenge anglers and sometimes enter the water and fake an injury to attract ... «Madison.com, Apr 15»
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Secret Wants To Be The Stream Of Consciousness For Live Events …
Which panel at this conference isn't boring? Where's the after-party? Your friends and followers around the world probably don't know or care. But people ... «TechCrunch, Jan 15»
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Stream of Consciousness: Using the Analogue and the Digital to …
There is something wonderfully anachronistic about 'Stream' -- WPP's "un-conference" that celebrates the collisions and collusion's between all things digital ... «Huffington Post, Dec 14»
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Harris' stream of consciousness: Texans vs. Cowboys
Just flowing stream of consciousness style while watching the game again. And, yes, it was as painful as it was watching it from the sideline the first time. «HoustonTexans.com, Oct 14»

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