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Definition of Monomania
1. Noun. A mania restricted to one thing or idea.
Definition of Monomania
1. n. Derangement of the mind in regard of a single subject only; also, such a concentration of interest upon one particular subject or train of ideas to show mental derangement.
Definition of Monomania
1. Noun. Excessive interest or concentration on a singular object or subject. ¹
2. Noun. A pathological obsession with one person, thing or idea. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Monomania
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Medical Definition of Monomania
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Monomania
Literary usage of Monomania
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1887)
"THE term monomania was first adopted by Esquirol as a designation for certain
phases of insanity which he had differentiated from the forms previously ..."
2. Mental Pathology and Therapeutics by Wilhelm Griesinger (1867)
"monomania. § 141. Under the term monomania are comprehended those »tatea of
exaltation which are characterised by affirmative expansive emotions, ..."
3. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity: With References to the Scotch and by John Hutton Balfour Browne (1880)
"monomania is a disease of that part of the disposition in which the man principally
... It is in monomania, therefore, that illusions and delusions are most ..."
4. A Treatise on Insanity in Its Medical Relations by William Alexander Hammond (1883)
"Many cases of the monomania of Esquirol, and the megalomania of Dagonet and
others, are also comprehended under the head of intellectual monomania with ..."
5. Insanity, its classification, diagnosis, and treatment by Edward Charles Spitzka (1883)
"monomania is a chronic form of insanity based on an acquired or ... While monomania
is, in the vast majority of cases, based on an inherited taint of ..."
6. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"But this anxiety never degenerated into a monomania, like that which led his father
... Instinctive monomania., the excessive tendency to do some particular ..."
7. The principles and practice of medical jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1873)
"In eccentricity there is the will to do or not to do : in real monomania the ...
monomania frequently assumes one of two forms : either the thoughts are ..."
8. Law of Wills, Executors and Administrators by James Schouler (1915)
"American Maxims as to the Effect of monomania upon Testamentary Capacity. In the
American cases, where the influence of monomania or ..."
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