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monomania
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"insanity in regard to a single subect or class of subjects," 1820, probably on model of earlier French monomanie , from Modern Latin monomania , from Greek monos "single, alone" (see mono- ) + mania (see mania ).
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In 19th-century psychiatry , monomania (from Greek monos , one, and mania , meaning "madness" or "frenzy") was a form of partial insanity conceived as single pathological preoccupation in an otherwise sound mind. Partial insanity, variations of which enjoyed ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 excessive interest or concentration on a singular object or subject. 2 A pathological obsession with one person, thing or idea.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a mania restricted to one thing or idea [syn: possession ]
Usage examples of monomania.
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.
Adams leave to defend himself against the charge of monomania, and asked whether he was doing so.
But in monomania the errant faculty protrudes itself in a way that may not be denied.
Downie may give him counsel, convince him of his folly, and if possible free him henceforth from the monomania under which he now suffers.
The remembrance of this, he said, should be ever present with him, and he was confident would protect him if his unhappy monomania shewed any signs of returning.
It is not probable that this monomania in him took its instant rise at the precise time of his bodily dismemberment.
It would be refining too much, perhaps, even considering his monomania, to hint that his vindictiveness towards the White Whale might have possibly extended itself in some degree to all sperm whales, and that the more monsters he slew by so much the more he multiplied the chances that each subsequently encountered whale would prove to be the hated one he hunted.
Oh, it was always there, that tendency toward monomania, but he did a better job of concealing it.
I should have exposed those three honest men to becoming the victims of the first bold cheat who, ministering to their monomania, might have won their favour, and would have ruined them by inducing them to undertake the chemical operations of the Great Work.
It would be refining too much, perhaps, even considering his monomania, to hint that his vindictiveness towards the White Whale might have possibly extended itself in some degree to all sperm whales, and that the more monsters he slew by so much the more he multiplied the chances that each subsequently encountered whale would prove to be the hated one he hunted.
Still a third group deal with abnormal psychology and monomania in such a way as to express terror but not weirdness.
The former was the best of all possible mothers, only marred beyond belief by the religious monomania which perhaps started in what one may call `Hysteria of Widowhood'.
In spite, however, of evidence called in her defence—as, for example, that of Dr Pitois, of Rennes, who was Helene's own doctor, and who said that ``the woman had a bizarre character, frequently complaining of stomach pains and formications in the head''—in spite of this doctor's hints of monomania in the accused, the jury, with every chance allowed them to find her irresponsible, still saw nothing in her extenuation.
The water in it moved swirlingly as the stirrer turned in motor-driven monomania, while the electric bulbs beneath the water, serving as heaters, flicked on and off distractingly, in time, with the, clicking of the mercury relay.
The water in it moved swirlingly as the stirrer turned in motor-driven monomania, while the electric bulbs beneath the water, serving as heaters, flicked on and off distractingly, in time with the clicking of the mercury relay.