Monomania
[mɒnə(ʊ)'meɪnɪə]
Definition
(n.) Derangement of the mind in regard of a single subject only; also, such a concentration of interest upon one particular subject or train of ideas to show mental derangement.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Hallucination, illusion, delusion, self-deception, partial insanity, insanity on one subject.
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Definition
n. madness confined to one subject or to one faculty of the mind: an unreasonable interest in any particular thing.—n. Monomā′niac one affected with monomania.—adjs. Monomā′niac -al affected with monomania.
Typist: Rex
Examples
- She looked like a woman with a monomania, furtive almost, but heavily proud. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I call it quite my monomania, it is such a subject of mine. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- There are no limits to the possibilities of monomania, I answered. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He had a clog, a sort of monomania. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It's a monomania with him to think he is possessed of documents. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It was his monomania; on all ordinary subjects he was sensible enough, and fain was she to engage him in ordinary topics. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The western world was indeed black with homicidal monomania. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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