monomania
Example Sentences
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His state senate Republican colleagues, weary of his hair-on-fire approach to advocating his monomania, removed him as chair of the pertinent committee.
From Washington Post • Sep. 25, 2022
A similar monomania is back for this latest boom in Black screen expression.
From New York Times • May 20, 2021
While whiplashing the viewing audience with her concertmaster’s monomania, she overlooks her son’s descent into evilness.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2020
In conceiving the project, Fournier and Marty invented a backstory and built their décor around it with the zany monomania of a Wes Anderson movie.
From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 13, 2018
He could be generous and caring to a fault, but he had a darker side as well, characterized by monomania, impatience, and unwavering self-absorption, qualities that seemed to intensify through his college years.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing monomania
It's Madness!: Mania
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The Time Machine
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