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Definitions for monomania
ˌmɒn əˈmeɪ ni ə, -ˈmeɪn yəmono·ma·ni·a
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Princeton's WordNet
monomania, possessionnoun
a mania restricted to one thing or idea
Wiktionary
monomanianoun
Excessive interest or concentration on a singular object or subject.
It was apparent to all but himself that what was once idle curiosity had become a monomania.
monomanianoun
A pathological obsession with one person, thing or idea.
Wikipedia
Monomania
In 19th-century psychiatry, monomania (from Greek monos, one, and mania, meaning "madness" or "frenzy") was a form of partial insanity conceived as single psychological obsession in an otherwise sound mind.: 155 : 26
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monomania
Monomania is a form of mental illness that involves excessive preoccupation or obsession with a single thing, idea, or subject, while remaining generally functional in other aspects of life. It can also refer to an excessive and uncontrollable passion or enthusiasm towards a single interest or hobby.
Webster Dictionary
Monomanianoun
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
Wikidata
Monomania
In 19th century psychiatry, monomania was a form of partial insanity conceived as single pathological preoccupation in an otherwise sound mind. Partial insanity, variations of which enjoyed a long pre-history in jurisprudence, was in contrast to the traditional notion of total insanity, exemplified in the diagnosis of mania, as a global condition effecting all aspects of understanding and which reflected the position that the mind or soul was an indivisible entity. Coined by the French psychiatrist Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol around 1810, monomania was a new disease-concept characterised by the presence of an expansive idée fixe in which the mind was diseased and deranged in some facets but otherwise normal in others. Esquirol and his circle delineated three broad categories of monomania coherent with the traditional tripartite classification of the mind into intellectual, emotional and volitional faculties. Emotional monomania is that in which the patient is obsessed with only one emotion or several related to it; intellectual monomania is that which is related to only one kind of delirious idea or ideas. Although, monomania was retained as one of seven recognized categories of mental illness in the 1880 US census, its importance as a psychiatric diagnostic category was in decline from the mid-19th century. It no longer appears in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Monomania
mon-ō-mā′ni-a, 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. [Gr. monos, alone, mania, madness.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of monomania in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of monomania in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of monomania in a Sentence
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.
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