Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having only one theme.
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- adjective of a name Composed of a single traditional
name element.
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Examples
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But of course there is no contingency in novels, only writing and plot, and the point of this twist of events, I think, has less to do with punishment of any kind, of the self or of others, than with what the narrator calls the "monothematic" nature of pain and humiliation.
Ian McEwan's 'Solar': The Fat Man's Vengeance (New York Review) 2010
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But of course there is no contingency in novels, only writing and plot, and the point of this twist of events, I think, has less to do with punishment of any kind, of the self or of others, than with what the narrator calls the "monothematic" nature of pain and humiliation.
Ian McEwan's 'Solar': The Fat Man's Vengeance (New York Review) 2010
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But of course there is no contingency in novels, only writing and plot, and the point of this twist of events, I think, has less to do with punishment of any kind, of the self or of others, than with what the narrator calls the "monothematic" nature of pain and humiliation.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2010
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“Schizophrenia and monothematic delusions,” Schizophrenia Bulletin, 33 (3):
Delusion Bortolotti, Lisa 2009
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By reference to monothematic delusions, Max Coltheart explains the two main factors involved in the formation of delusions as follows:
Delusion Bortolotti, Lisa 2009
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Thus, a person who systematically fails to recognize her image in the mirror and comes to think that there is a person identical to her following her around (as in mirrored-self misidentification), but has no other unusual beliefs, has a monothematic delusion.
Delusion Bortolotti, Lisa 2009
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There are three types: monothematic, polythematic with different points, varying in number from three to 11, and polythematic with the reappearance of earlier points.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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This impairment is the same in all people with monothematic delusions.
Delusion Bortolotti, Lisa 2009
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Other examples of monothematic delusions often referred to in the philosophical literature are Capgras and Cotard.
Delusion Bortolotti, Lisa 2009
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In counter point, can you cite examples where a third party candidate with a monothematic platform received a significant percentage of the vote and one or both of the major parties did not adjust their platforms accordingly?
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