Polylogyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

polylogy (usually uncountable, 複数形 polylogies)

1. (まれに) A set of two or more works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
   • 1871 August Pfizmaier [1]

     These works […] appear, upon closer scrutiny, to be dramatic, and are actually the seventh and eighth parts of an "ennealogy" (as it were), perhaps polylogy, for dramas in Japan frequently are protracted to such lengths.

2. (まれに) Talkativeness.

関連する語

• dilogy (2)
• trilogy (3)
• tetralogy (4)
• pentalogy (5)
• hexalogy (6)
• heptalogy (7)
• octalogy (8)
• ennealogy (9)
• decalogy (10)

参照

• polylogy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.