monomania
Example Sentences
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Menacing as Lockjaw can be chasing after Willa with a monomania that feels nearly Terminator-esque, he’s still as pitiful as hapless Pete.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025
It turns out you can pay a lot for the privilege of real-time “re-enactments,” and he does, commissioning a series of increasingly elaborate set pieces whose pursuit soon curdles into monomania.
From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2024
But Schiff feels uneasy with his suspicious monomania that rejected any “peace and quiet” in governance.
From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2022
One of the chief impediments to me listening to it all, and something I have to actively fight against every day, is a natural tendency to musical monomania.
From The Guardian • Mar. 5, 2020
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
