- Monomania - Wikipedia
In 19th-century psychiatry, monomania (from Greek monos, "one", and mania, meaning "madness" or "frenzy") was a form of partial insanity conceived as single psychological obsession in an otherwise sound mind
- MONOMANIA Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of MONOMANIA is mental illness especially when limited in expression to one idea or area of thought
- Monomania - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
The word monomania, from the Greek mono, "one" and mania, "madness," was coined by a French psychiatrist in the early 1800s One of the most famous literary cases of monomania is that of Captain Ahab, obsessed with his pursuit of Moby Dick
- Monomania - definition of monomania by The Free Dictionary
Pathological obsession with one idea or subject 2 Intent concentration on or exaggerated enthusiasm for a single subject or idea mon′o·ma′ni·ac′ (-mā′nē-ăk′) n American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- MONOMANIA | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
MONOMANIA definition: 1 a condition in which someone is extremely interested in one thing, in a way that is not normal… Learn more
- MONOMANIA definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
An excessive mental preoccupation with one thing, idea, etc Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video
- Monomania – Knowledge and References – Taylor Francis
Monomania is a mental disorder characterized by an obsessive preoccupation with a single idea or impulse, often resulting in extreme and uncontrollable behavior In the case of homicidal monomania, the individual is driven by a violent urge that they are unable to resist due to a lesion of the will
- monomania, n. meanings, etymology and more - Oxford English Dictionary
monomania is formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a French lexical item Etymons: mono- comb form, mania n
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