monomania
English
Etymology
Either:
- Formed in English as mono- + mania;
- From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French monomanie; or,
- From the Modern (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin monomania.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪniə
Noun
monomania (plural monomanias or monomaniæ)
- Excessive interest or concentration on a singular object or subject.
- It was apparent to all but himself that what was once idle curiosity had become a monomania.
- A pathological obsession with one person, thing or idea.
Quotations
- 1905 — Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
- "There are no limits to the possibilities of monomania," I answered. "There is the condition which the modern French psychologists have called the 'idee fixe,' which may be trifling in character, and accompanied by complete sanity in every other way. A man who had read deeply about Napoleon, or who had possibly received some hereditary family injury through the great war, might conceivably form such an 'idee fixe' and under its influence be capable of any fantastic outrage."
Related terms
Translations
an excessive interest with a singal subject
See also
Finnish
Etymology
Noun
monomania
Declension
Inflection of monomania (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | monomania | monomaniat | ||
genitive | monomanian | monomanioiden monomanioitten | ||
partitive | monomaniaa | monomanioita | ||
illative | monomaniaan | monomanioihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | monomania | monomaniat | ||
accusative | nom. | monomania | monomaniat | |
gen. | monomanian | |||
genitive | monomanian | monomanioiden monomanioitten monomaniain rare | ||
partitive | monomaniaa | monomanioita | ||
inessive | monomaniassa | monomanioissa | ||
elative | monomaniasta | monomanioista | ||
illative | monomaniaan | monomanioihin | ||
adessive | monomanialla | monomanioilla | ||
ablative | monomanialta | monomanioilta | ||
allative | monomanialle | monomanioille | ||
essive | monomaniana | monomanioina | ||
translative | monomaniaksi | monomanioiksi | ||
abessive | monomaniatta | monomanioitta | ||
instructive | — | monomanioin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Italian
Etymology
Noun
monomania f (plural monomanie)
Related terms
Anagrams
Categories:
- English terms prefixed with mono-
- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English 5-syllable words
- Rhymes:English/eɪniə
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English words suffixed with -mania
- en:Manias
- Finnish terms prefixed with mono-
- Finnish terms suffixed with -mania
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish kulkija-type nominals
- Italian terms prefixed with mono-
- Italian terms suffixed with -mania
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns