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mon·o·ma·ni·a    Audio Help   [mon-uh-mey-nee-uh, -meyn-yuh] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.(no longer in technical use) a psychosis characterized by thoughts confined to one idea or group of ideas.
2.an inordinate or obsessive zeal for or interest in a single thing, idea, subject, or the like.

[Origin: 1815–25; < NL; see mono-, -mania]

mon·o·ma·ni·ac    Audio Help   [mon-uh-mey-nee-ak] Pronunciation Key, noun
mon·o·ma·ni·a·cal    Audio Help   [mon-uh-muh-nahy-uh-kuhl] Pronunciation Key, adjective
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mon·o·ma·ni·a    Audio Help   (mŏn'ə-mā'nē-ə, -mān'yə)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. 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-āk') n., mon'o·ma·ni'a·cal (-mə-nī'ə-kəl) adj., mon'o·ma·ni'a·cal·ly adv.
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monomania 
1823, from Mod.L., from Gk. monos "single, alone" + mania. Probably on model of earlier Fr. monomanie. Form of insanity in which the patient is mad on one subject only.

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monomania

noun
a mania restricted to one thing or idea 

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Monomania

In*san"i*ty\, n. [L. insanitas unsoundness; cf. insania insanity, F. insanite.]

1. The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.

All power of fancy overreason is a degree of insanity. --Johnson.

Without grace The heart's insanity admits no cure. --Cowper.

2. (Law) Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility.

Syn: Syn>- Insanity, Lunacy, Madness, Derangement, Aliention, Aberration, Mania, Delirium, Frenzy, Monomania, Dementia.

Usage: Insanity is the generic term for all such diseases; lunacy has now an equal extent of meaning, though once used to denote periodical insanity; madness has the same extent, though originally referring to the rage created by the disease; derangement, alienation, are popular terms for insanity; delirium, mania, and frenzy denote excited states of the disease; dementia denotes the loss of mental power by this means; monomania is insanity upon a single subject.
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