monomania

noun

mono·ma·nia | \ ˌmä-nə-ˈmā-nē-ə

, -nyə\

Definition of monomania

1 : mental illness especially when limited in expression to one idea or area of thought

2 : excessive concentration on a single object or idea

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Other Words from monomania

monomaniac \ ˌmä-nə-ˈmā-nē-ˌak

\ noun or adjective

monomaniacal \ ˌmä-nə-mə-ˈnī-ə-kəl

\ adjective

monomaniacally \ ˌmä-nə-mə-ˈnī-ə-k(ə-)lē

\ adverb

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In conceiving the project, Fournier and Marty invented a backstory and built their décor around it with the zany monomania of a Wes Anderson movie. — Joshua Levine, WSJ, "A Moroccan Retreat With a French Minimalist Spin," 13 Aug. 2018 Polar monomania is the subject and driving force behind this curious book, a composite of capsule history, essays and fictionalized memoir. — Sam Sacks, WSJ, "Fiction Chronicles: The Intoxicating Attraction of the Abyss," 8 June 2018 The textualist monomania seems to grate especially on Ginsburg, who was famously close with Scalia. — Simon Van Zuylen-wood, Daily Intelligencer, "How Neil Gorsuch Became the Second-Most-Polarizing Man in Washington," 28 May 2018 Fischer’s defiant monomania already had many worried during his adolescence. — Ann Hulbert, Time, "What Parents Can Learn From Steve Jobs and Bill Gates About Raising a Prodigy," 10 Jan. 2018 Thank You for Being Late offers invaluable, if perhaps inadvertent, insight into the technologists’ cold monomania. — Justin Peters, Slate Magazine, "Tom Friedman’s oracular pretensions have never felt more ridiculous than they do in his latest best-seller.," 17 Jan. 2017 The user @ProTrump45 is gone, for now, but Trump’s tweet, which contains a blank space where Nicole’s message would be, remains a monument to his monomania. — Maya Kosoff, The Hive, "Trump Falls for His Own Propaganda Machine," 8 Aug. 2017 Mayer means it as trash-talk—but that kind of monomania may be necessary to primary a president. — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, "The G.O.P. Race to Primary Trump Has Already Begun," 5 Apr. 2017

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