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monomania

NOUN
  1. a mania restricted to one thing or idea

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  • Sometimes it manifests itself in the milder forms of hallucination, or monomania, but in the majority of cases, the patient sinks into a despondent hypochondria, which is many times followed, sooner or later, by a raving mania. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
  • James Franco has been my favorite in these films; it's obvious he's had enormous fun playing the character who goes from high school flunker to monomaniacal business mogul. Movie Review: Spider-Man 3
  • He felt genuine awe at this superhuman man, at once so puissant, so self-possessed, so monomaniac in his demeanour.
  • His bellowed anti-Europe diatribes breathe the monomania that still sets the conference afire.
  • Monomaniacs have trouble sounding like normal people since they only know how to say a few things over and over.
  • Asylum doctors divided mental illness into four categories: mania (with an important subcategory, monomania), melancholia, dementia, and idiocy.
  • Groceteria, insular, monomaniacal, abysmally and shaddock took out five spellers in round eight; simultaneity, lapidarian, braillist and pertussis ended the contest for another four in round nine. Azcentral.com | news
  • He is the novel's most famous character, and an easily recognizable symbol of monomania.
  • He talks of my ‘monomaniac fancy that there is nothing quaint or antique in Homer.’
  • Mr. McLynn is as unsparing of the senior commanders in Burma as they were of each other: The "mentally unstable" Wingate is posthumously diagnosed with bipolar disorder; Chennault suffered from "monomania," was "essentially false" and "joined in the Chinese elite's corruption and peculation with avidity"; Chiang is described as having given his second wife a nasty venereal disease on their wedding night. Still Forgotten
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