Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to monomania; also, afflicted with monomania.
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- adjective
Fanatical , orobsessed with onecause oridea to the exclusion of other concerns. - adjective Of or relating to a
monomaniac .
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- adjective obsessed with a single subject or idea
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Examples
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Hiring help does not solve the problems with the "monomaniacal" culture of science.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, Sexism and Stereotypes Peggy 2008
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One thing was clear, though--I was never going to be a professor of anything if it meant that kind of monomaniacal passion.
The passion of Professor Piranian doyle 2009
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The worst offenders are the Blue Dog caucus of Democrats from conservative districts who are positively obsessed, with a kind of monomaniacal zeal, on balancing the budget and matching revenue to expenditures.
Hullabaloo 2008
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Mr. GOUREVITCH: He was -- he modeled himself a lot on Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, a certain kind of monomaniacal, African strongman type.
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda 1998
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The Beeb seems to have let BBC3 leak into its programming elsewhere; there is a kind of monomaniacal craziness which modern controllers have in that they look first at whether a programme 'fits' before looking at whether it's good.
The Guardian World News James Donaghy 2010
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When it comes to purely practical arguments, atheists and theists can argue whether it has been religious zealots or monomaniacal non-believers who have killed the greater number of people over the course of history.
Ted Cadsby: Defying Our Maker: What The New Atheists Miss Ted Cadsby 2011
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Given the monomaniacal opposition to taxation among Conservative Movementarians, they would probably be happy to accept that trade. zic Says:
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So why the monomaniacal focus on the evils of inflation?
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Say what you will about Stalin (and personally, I say he was brutal, monomaniacal, and paranoid), but to accuse him, and his fellow Soviet leaders of turning “one of the leading scientific, cultural and industrial powers in the world” into a backwater is downright Orwellian in its dishonesty.
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When it comes to purely practical arguments, atheists and theists can argue whether it has been religious zealots or monomaniacal non-believers who have killed the greater number of people over the course of history.
Ted Cadsby: Defying Our Maker: What The New Atheists Miss Ted Cadsby 2011
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