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monomania

[ mon-uh-mey-nee-uh, -meyn-yuh ]

noun

  1. (no longer in technical use) a psychosis characterized by thoughts confined to one idea or group of ideas.
  2. an inordinate or obsessive zeal for or interest in a single thing, idea, subject, or the like.


monomania

/ ˌmɒnəʊməˈnaɪəkəl; ˌmɒnəʊˈmeɪnɪə /

noun

  1. an excessive mental preoccupation with one thing, idea, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • monomaniacal, adjective
  • ˌDzԴˈԾˌ, nounadjective
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Other yvlog Forms

  • Dz···Ծ· [mon-, uh, -, mey, -nee-ak], noun
  • Dz···Ծ·· [mon-, uh, -m, uh, -, nahy, -, uh, -k, uh, l], adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of monomania1

From New Latin, dating back to 1815–25; mono-, -mania
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It turns out you can pay a lot for the privilege of real-time “re-enactments,” and he does, commissioning a series of increasingly elaborate set pieces whose pursuit soon curdles into monomania.

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But Schiff feels uneasy with his suspicious monomania that rejected any “peace and quiet” in governance.

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Some of her points are tongue-in-cheek — “When in doubt spray-paint it gold” — while others are universal: “Fight monomania,” and “Wake up early, fear death.”

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His state senate Republican colleagues, weary of his hair-on-fire approach to advocating his monomania, removed him as chair of the pertinent committee.

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But it also has something to do with the 59-year-old Cruise’s close stewardship of his own superhuman image, a commitment that speaks to his talent as well as his monomania.

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