soli-, sol- +

(Latin: one, alone, only)

isolative (adjective)
Causing someone or something to be separated or cut off.
sole (adjective) (not comparable)
1. Pertaining to when there is only a single thing.
2. A reference to belonging to one person or group.
3. In law, relating to being without a husband or a wife.
5. Relating to being unaccompanied or without a companion.
solely (adverb)
1. To the exclusion of all else or others.
2. Done for just one reason.
solibiblical (adjective), more solibiblical, mostsolibiblical
Depending or relying only on the Bible.
solifidian (s) (noun), solifidians (pl)
Someone who holds that a strong belief alone, without works, is sufficient for justification (religious salvation).
solifidianism (s) (noun), solifidianisms (pl)
The doctrine or tenet of justification (salvation) is by belief alone and without works.
soliloquacious (adjective) (not comparable)
Referring to a person who talks or speaks to herself or himself: Jane was quite soliloquacious in the bathroom and was holding a monologue regardless of the rest of her family listening outside the bathroom door!

In Shakespeare's play "To be or not to be?", Hamlet held a solilquacious speech telling the audience what he was thinking.

soliloquizes
soliloquizing
Speaking a soliloquy, or speaking to oneself, during the course of a play.
soliloquy (s) (noun), soliloquies (pl)
1. The act of speaking while alone; especially, when used as a theatrical device that allows a character's thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience: Soliloquies and monologues have one thing in common: they each involve a solitary speaker in a dramatic presentation.

A monologue, from the Greek monos, "single" and legein. "to speak" is a speech given by a single person to an audience. Marc Antony delivered a well-known soliloquy to the people of Rome in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" drama.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interred with their bones:

So let it be with Caesar.

The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious.

If it were so, it was a grievous fault,

And grievously hath Caesar answered it.

Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest—

For Brutus is an honorable man;

So are they all, all honorable men—

Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.

He was my friend, faithful and just to me.

But Brutus says he was ambitious,

And Brutus is an honorable man.

He hath brought many captives home to Rome

Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.

Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,

And Brutus is an honorable man.

You all did see that on the Lupercal

I thrice presented him a kingly crown,

Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,

And, sure, he is an honorable man.

I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,

But here I am to speak what I do know.

You all did love him once, not without cause.

What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?

O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,

And men have lost their reason. Bear with me.

My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,

And I must pause till it come back to me.

2. Etymology: from Latin solus, "only to oneself" + loquor, "talk, speak".
The act of talking to oneself.
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A speech which someone makes to himself or herself.
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A monologue made to oneself.
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soliped, solipede
1. With one foot.
2. An animal having a whole or uncloven hoof.
solipotence (s) (noun) (no pl)
Sole power; a unique power: Some people believe that God is endowed with solipotence, while others think that nature possesses solipotence which certainly cannot be mastered in the long run!
solipsism (s) (noun), solipsisms (pl)
1. The belief that one's self is the only object of real knowledge or the only thing that really exists: Solipsism is the philosophical idea that just the mind, and nothing else, is present, while everything else, the external world, is uncertain and cannot be verified.
2. The condition of self-centerdness or selfishness: Jane really wondered why some people believe in solipsism and act in such an egocentric and self-seeking way, and so inconsiderate of other people.
solitaire
1. A card game played by one person.
2. A gem, especially a diamond, that is set alone in a ring.
3. Before 1500, the English sense of solitere referred to a "widow" then it became solitaire, a solitary person, a recluse.
solitaneous
Solitary, single, alone, without company.