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monomania

[mon-uh-mey-nee-uh, -meyn-yuh] / ˌmɒn əˈmeɪ ni ə, -ˈmeɪn yə /








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Preda likens AI-induced psychosis to monomania, a state of fixation on certain ideas, which he described in a recent article.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

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

And with the arguable exception of “Mission: Impossible’s” Ethan Hunt, few Cruise characters have felt as aligned with that monomania as Maverick.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2022

Sometime in “Joy Womack: The White Swan,” determination starts to look like monomania, even if the directors, Dina Burlis and Sergey Gavrilov, never tip their hands on where they stand.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2021

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




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