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monomania Definition

mono·ma·nia (män′ō mā′nē ə)

noun

  1. an excessive interest in or enthusiasm for some one thing; craze
  2. a mental disorder characterized by irrational preoccupation with one subject

Etymology: ModL: see mono- & mania

Related Forms:

  • monomaniac mon′o·ma′·niac′ (-mā′nē ak′) noun
  • monomaniacal mon′o·ma·ni′a·cal (-mə nī′ə kəl) adjective
monomania Synonyms

monomania

n.

fanaticism, furor, compulsion; see neurosis, obsession.

monomania Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • have: We have here a musical monomania: concerts seem to be the sole purpose in life of the Parisians.
monomania Quotes

Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well onpaper, suchasnational budgets or industrial balance sheets.

—Weil, Simone