monomania

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Monomania or the being possessed with one idea to the exclusion of others, is a form of overstrained attention, sustained by memory.

From The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence by Leland, Charles Godfrey

This Monomania in many instances is not Insanity, but individuality, which is the highest natural development of a human being.

From Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity by Packard, Elizabeth Parsons Ware

Partial Intellectual Mania, or Monomania, also called Melancholia, is a form of the disease in which the patient becomes possessed of some single notion, contradictory alike to common-sense and his own experience.

From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )

Insanity may be divided into four species: 1st, Monomania, and melancholy, in which the delirium is confined to one or few objects.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

Monomania had produced Great Things, in the form of a c/2 drive.

From Subjectivity by Spinrad, Norman