monomaniac
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Noun[edit]
monomaniac (plural monomaniacs)
- A person who is obsessed with a single thing, to the exclusion of other concerns.
- 1859, George Meredith, chapter 15, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
- To talk nonsense, or poetry, or the dash between the two, in a tone of profound sincerity, and to enunciate solemn discordances with received opinion so seriously as to convey the impression of a spiritual insight, is the peculiar gift by which monomaniacs, having first persuaded themselves, contrive to influence their neighbours, and through them to make conquest of a good half of the world, for good or for ill.
- 1873, Horatio Alger, chapter X, in Bound to Rise:
- Harry knew now that the old man was crazy, or at least a monomaniac, and, though he seemed harmless enough, it was of course possible that he might be dangerous.
- 1890, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 44, in The Firm of Girdlestone:
- He had never yet been able to determine whether the old man was a consummate hypocrite or a religious monomaniac.
- Synonym: fanatic
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monomaniac
- Focused on one thing above all others.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 133, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- ...then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe.
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Etymology[edit]
From French monomaniaque.
Adjective[edit]
monomaniac m or n (feminine singular monomaniacă, masculine plural monomaniaci, feminine and neuter plural monomaniace)
Declension[edit]
Declension of monomaniac
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | monomaniac | monomaniacă | monomaniaci | monomaniace | ||
definite | monomaniacul | monomaniaca | monomaniacii | monomaniacele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | monomaniac | monomaniace | monomaniaci | monomaniace | ||
definite | monomaniacului | monomaniacei | monomaniacilor | monomaniacelor |
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