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monomaniac::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | diseased person, sick person, sufferer |
| Derivation | monomaniacal |
Examples of monomaniac
monomaniac
But I hope I have not given the impression that Simpson is a man-hating monomaniac.
From the guardian.co.uk
Strange then, that the hot topics are all personal hobby-horses of our monomaniac Prime Minister.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Half moral, half immoral, all monomaniac.
From the philly.com
He's about as far from the testosterone-fuelled, monomaniac conductors of yesteryear as it's possible to be.
From the guardian.co.uk
Alan Held's vocally Wagnerian portrayal of the prophet was that of an obsessed monomaniac living in a glare of cosmic truth Salome can't fathom, until her post-beheading transformation.
From the philly.com
What McNally presents us with, however, is a monomaniac diva who pontificates about art, bitches about fellow singers and witheringly puts down the three students she confronts.
From the guardian.co.uk
Is V. really a political deviationist being brainwashed by Big Brother, or is he a monomaniac who only thinks he is a mathematician and only supposes he is being persecuted?
From the time.com
The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung.
From the theatlantic.com
- A person suffering from monomania
- (monomaniacal) obsessed with a single subject or idea
- (monomania) a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- In psychiatry, monomania (from Greek monos, one, and mania, mania) is a single pathological preoccupation in an otherwise sound mind.
- A person who is obsessed with a single thing, to the exclusion of other concerns; Focussed on one thing above all others
- (monomania) Excessive interest or concentration on a singular object or subject; A pathological obsession with one person, thing or idea
- (Monomania) madness confined to one subject.
- (MONOMANIA) A nineteenth-century term for a pathological obsession with one idea or one social cause. Nineteenth-century psychiatrists often associated explosive behavior with monomania. The word is no longer used as a technical term.
