Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
monomaniacal . - noun A person affected by monomania.
- noun In law, one who is insane upon some one or more subjects, and apparently sane upon all others.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person affected by monomania.
- adjective Affected with monomania, or partial derangement of intellect; caused by, or resulting from, monomania.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who is
obsessed with asingle thing, to theexclusion of other concerns. - adjective
Focussed on one thing above all others.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person suffering from monomania
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Examples
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Nothing could be more just than to class him as a monomaniac, for he was one, if by the word monomaniac we designate every man who is dominated by a fixed idea.
Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877
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I'd be more than happy to see a few more members of Congress with their "monomaniac" commitment to the democratic process.
MAIL CALL 2007
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Though "monomaniac" was a little harsh, it wasn't all that unfair, and frankly good for you for being one.
Rostropovich and Shostakovich, Round 2 sfmike 2006
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I became a monomaniac there for a while, in service of my need to become a winemaker.
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I became a monomaniac there for a while, in service of my need to become a winemaker.
Q&A 2009
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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.
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Even when mainstream voters share Tory instincts about the European Union, the way that Tories express them has often made the party look disturbingly monomaniac.
The Tory Eurosceptics are on a roll. So why are they still so cross? | Andrew Rawnsley 2011
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You can work hard and be intensely interested in your research without being a monomaniac.
Archive 2008-03-01 Peggy 2008
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Until his own life falls apart because of his monomaniac focus on Black.
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Anne Royall 1769 – 1854 a hero of feminism… but in her day… she was “called a virago and a monomaniac” - now that such things are “normalized” we can celebrate her without a concern.
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