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Recent Examples of monomania
The entire plot of the movie spun out of his love for Princess Peach, and Black’s vocal performance was a delectable weave of monomania and insecurity.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
31 Mar. 2026
Bernhard’s barely contained incestuous desires (The Loser is only one of a suite of works about brother-sister love and hate, alongside Correction, The Lime Works, and Concrete) are the product of individual psychologies run amok and turned back on themselves, the offshoots of artistic monomania.
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Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
If the father of talk therapy aimed to mitigate our wanting’s intensity, Rorty sought to intervene in its monomania.
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Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2026
The funny thing is, Austin fathered seven children in all, but only Dot, Betty and Helen were coerced into performing, and their father’s monomania is compared, quite alarmingly, to such bullying stage fathers as Murray Wilson (The Beach Boys) and Joe Jackson (The Jackson 5).
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Damon Wise,
Deadline,
13 Mar. 2026
In this opera about monomania and desperation, the stakes somehow seem low.
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Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
That moniker, which sits on the line between jokiness and monomania, captures the danger.
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Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
19 Oct. 2024
The monomania of getting into the sky transcends any barrier that puts him on the ground.
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Tyler Coates,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Dec. 2022
Coaches and judges exacerbated students’ monomania.
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Tess McNulty,
Harper's Magazine,
10 Aug. 2022
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
31 Mar. 2026
Bernhard’s barely contained incestuous desires (The Loser is only one of a suite of works about brother-sister love and hate, alongside Correction, The Lime Works, and Concrete) are the product of individual psychologies run amok and turned back on themselves, the offshoots of artistic monomania.
—
Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
If the father of talk therapy aimed to mitigate our wanting’s intensity, Rorty sought to intervene in its monomania.
—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2026
The funny thing is, Austin fathered seven children in all, but only Dot, Betty and Helen were coerced into performing, and their father’s monomania is compared, quite alarmingly, to such bullying stage fathers as Murray Wilson (The Beach Boys) and Joe Jackson (The Jackson 5).
—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
13 Mar. 2026
In this opera about monomania and desperation, the stakes somehow seem low.
—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
That moniker, which sits on the line between jokiness and monomania, captures the danger.
—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
19 Oct. 2024
The monomania of getting into the sky transcends any barrier that puts him on the ground.
—
Tyler Coates,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Dec. 2022
Coaches and judges exacerbated students’ monomania.
—
Tess McNulty,
Harper's Magazine,
10 Aug. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monomania
Noun
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His feverish obsession is a frontal assault on democracy.
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Thomas, as the team described during the panel, is envisioned as someone who already has an existing relationship with the Blue Angel mushroom, and treats it with religious obsession, in Hely’s words.
Noun
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By chance, Rhaena arrives at the Gullet on dragonback just in time to make the same hubristic mistake as her sister and her cousin, all suffering from the delusion that the war needs them.
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Schizoaffective disorder is a mental health condition that is marked by a mix of schizophrenia symptoms, such as hallucinations and delusions, and mood disorder symptoms, such as depression, mania and a milder form of mania called hypomania, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Noun
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Festivalgoers should expect petition endeavors aimed at mellowing out Idaho’s legal phobia about marijuana.
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His father has many food phobias and drug issues.
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“Monomania.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monomania. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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